Word: garrisoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Promptly at 5 a.m. the soldiers moved off. The first column, on foot, made its way up a little-used Land Rover track through the swamps, waded across the Kagera River, and overwhelmed a company-sized Ugandan garrison near the village of Kyebe. Then, climbing aboard the garrison's trucks and Jeeps, it cut northwest to the town of Sanje. The second column, with a few vehicles of its own, easily swept through the small frontier post of Mutukula, and joined forces with the first at Sanje. Together, they raced northward to Masaka, 80 miles from the capital...
...Vallee. The location: a trailer park. Vallee was only moderately pleased by the honor. "I need that street about like I need another nose," he said. Then he added a four-letter expletive that one would never have expected to hear from Rudy Vallee. With Candace Mossier Garrison, femme fatale is not an idle phrase. After her first marriage ended in divorce, her second, to Millionaire Jacques Mossier, ended in murder. Candy was acquitted of the deed, in a lurid trial featuring her affair with her young nephew and codefendant, Mel Powers. Last week the butler found her third husband...
...Harvard College Prizes for this year have been awarded to Neil Jacobs '73, the Charles Joseph Bonaparte Scholarship: Geza Tatrallay '72, the Francis H. Burr Scholarship: Richard K. Hausler '72, the Paul Revere Frothingham Scholarship: Jerry LeClaire '72, the Palfrey Exhibition Award: Stephen Saletan '71, the Joseph Garrison Parker Prize: Roger Ferguson '73, Richard Perkins Parker Scholarship: Greg Rosenbaum '74, the Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship: Allen Curtis Greer '72, the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize: and Alan Quasha '72 and Steven Burbank 21, the Newbold Rhinelander Landon Memorial Scholarship for a Junior or Senior...
...Route 13, which runs between Saigon and An Loc. He would set out from the capital in the morning by car to cover the progress of the South Vietnamese 21 st Division as it fought its way with agonizing slowness toward An Loc and the relief of the garrison encircled there...
During the recent North Vietnamese advance on Kontum, two American Army advisers were ordered to pull out of nearby Fire Base 5, even though it had not been directly attacked. They simply left behind the base's garrison of 130 Montagnard tribesmen, who have long been among the hardiest and most determined troops on the allied side...