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...North Vietnamese responded to the attacks over a wide area. Some 80 miles south of Tchepone, Communist forces overran a Royal Laotian garrison at the edge of the Bolovens Plateau, overlooking the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The base, known as Site 22, commanded the SeKong River, a key artery in the trail complex. Near Tchepone itself, North Vietnamese troops managed to call in American artillery on South Vietnamese positions by using the same radio frequencies as the ARVN troops'. At other times they lured American helicopters into antiaircraft fire. Total helicopter losses since the Laos operation began five weeks...
...tommies were sent to Ulster 18 months ago. To prevent the violence from spreading, the government banned a Protestant rally that was to have featured a speech by the Rev. Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland's leading demagogue, and the British prepared to bolster their 6,000-man Ulster garrison with 600 additional troops...
That was quite an understatement. Since early December, when the trial of 16 youthful Basque terrorists got under way in the garrison city of Burgos, the country has been torn by the worst upheavals of Franco's 31-year rule. The regime's barefisted attack on the Basques, who were tortured by police and tried in a military court under a questionable "banditry and terrorism law," sparked opposition not only from the 2,000,000 ethnic Basques of northern Spain, but also from the country's Catholic clergy, its lawyers, its labor leaders, its students and some...
...reprisal for an attack on a German garrison by the Resistance, Nazi troops marched scores of Frenchmen to the Place de Souillac in the southwestern town of Tulle. From every tree in and around the little square, from every balcony and lamppost hung a rope with a ready noose; next to each stood two ladders and two waiting SS men. As each victim mounted one ladder, one of the Germans climbed the other, placed a noose around the Frenchman's neck, and pulled it tight. Then the other SS man yanked away the victim's ladder...
Through his new friends in the Gezira Sporting Club, Lotz was able to set up a stable in the Abassiye Garrison and get a permanent pass to the camp. Later he trained his horses at a practice race track beside the armor depot near Heliopolis. All the while, he was relaying his gleanings back to Israel on a tiny transmitter he kept in a riding boot. Through German friends, he established that Egyptian rockets were not an immediate menace because their guidance systems were unreliable. He also learned that the Egyptians' HA-300 jet interceptora great worry...