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From his command post at San Isidro, Wessin y Wessin announced operación libre to liberate the city. The army garrison at San Cristóbal rallied to his side; the navy joined in, lobbed 3-in. shells at the palace. Air force planes made repeated strafing runs. Then across the river rumbled the tanks, firing almost point-blank into rebel Ciudad Nueva...
...Bridges. At least thirty other Bulgarians faced a different fate. The government communiqué admitted the "arrest of certain persons who have violated the laws of the country." Most prominent and potentially dangerous: General Tsvetko Anev, 53, commander of the Sofia army garrison...
...celebrating King George III's 25th birthday, the Chippewas and Sacs in 1763 got together for some in tertribal bagataway - lacrosse,* in pale face language - outside Quebec's Fort Michilimackinac. Invited to watch the fun, the Fort's entire garrison gathered on the sidelines. Whereupon the braves dropped their bagataway sticks, grabbed their tomahawks, and staged one of the bloodiest massacres in Canadian history...
...POLLARD GARRISON Los Angeles Clear case of Jeremiah (5:22) ex machina...
Frustrated & Fatalistic. In this game of dominoes, the key piece was a tiny hamlet named Bongson-which in Vietnamese means "paradise." To its garrison of South Vietnamese defenders it appears more like a death trap. Hemmed in on one side by mountains, on the other by the sea, Bongson focuses a railroad, a river and the north-south coast highway, Route 1, into a single, strategic target. Last week Viet Cong campfires cast a brazen glow on the hills outside of town, while in Bong-son's main fort-rimmed with barbed wire and booby traps-soldiers and civil...