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...told by Artime in Panama afterwards, the men landed at night from two heavily armed torpedo boats. At a signal, one group attacked the militia garrison assisted by machine gun and recoilless rifle fire from the boats, thus pinning down most of the troops. An other group then fought its way to the radar station and destroyed most of the equipment with antitank weapons. The action lasted 55 minutes be fore the commandos escaped safely out to sea and back to "a secret base somewhere in the Caribbean." His own group suffered no losses, Artime claimed; but he could...
Fulfillment. Foot survived to chart (on camel back) the Wadi Araba Desert between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was blown out of a staff car on his way to demand the surrender of a Vichy French garrison in Syria, got stabbed in the back by an anti-British terrorist in Nigeria. He helped Nigerian politicians draft their constitution, and headed Jamaica's march to stability and independence. As for his last and most frustrating assignment, he says wryly that "anyone who understood Cyprus had been misinformed." Whatever the fate of that unhappy nation, Sir Hugh looks back...
...Alcohol. Occasionally, a Congolese emerges who can fight better for his country than any mercenary. One such is Colonel Leonard Mulamba of the government forces, commander of the garrison that fought off the bloody rebel invasion of Bukavu and gave the Congolese army something it could be proud of for a change. Mulamba, a tough disciplinarian who got his training as an adjutant in the Belgian Congo Force Publique, last week tried to turn his victory into a springboard for reform...
...Stanleyville poised menacingly just across the Congo River from the city, then turned and beat one of the fastest retreats in history - 560 miles to the rear in one day. At another major town, when a freak lightning bolt blew up an army powder magazine, the terrified garrison, convinced it was surrounded, fired back - in every direction...
...doubts as to who held the airport were cleared up later that day when a U.S. DC-3 carrying the commander of the Stanleyville garrison tried to land. It was met with gunfire, which wounded the American pilot and sent the plane winging hurriedly well out of range...