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...only authority is the cocky rebel army. "There is no trouble here, señor," said Lieut. Ramón Pérez, 32, commander of a tiny highway garrison called El Cobre, rousing himself from his afternoon siesta. Pérez' men had manned a .30-cal. machine gun on the guardhouse roof, and they stopped and searched all passing trucks. "If anybody we stop does not have identification-prisoner!" grinned Pérez. Off duty, the bearded, long-haired soldiers lounge about reading the leftist official army organ. Olive Green. Slogan: "The army is the people...
...month, former Dictator Juan Peron, exiled in the Dominican Republic, published what he said was a pre-election pact between himself and Frondizi. Thus provoked, the plotters moved up the date. At the signal-to be given by Rear Admiral Arturo Rial-the traditionally anti-Peronist Córdoba garrison would rise, and warships from the Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano bases would steam along the River Plate and blockade Buenos Aires. It was roughly the same plan that toppled Peron in 1955-Fatal Flaw. But the plan had a paradoxical flaw: too many other officers outside the plot were...
...offer not to increase the 11,000-man garrison that the U.S., Britain and France now maintain in Berlin...
...hatred of a young army recruit for his martinet captain in the dusty Pacific town garrison of Portoviejo caused the rioting that put Ecuador under martial law and killed at least 37 people...
...action at Pork Chop Hill began on April 16, 1953, when . two Chinese Communist companies swarmed over the small U.S. garrison. Militarily, the hill was of small importance; morally, it had immense significance. By taking it, the Communists posed two questions that were crucial to the course of the peace talks at Panmunjom: 1) Was the U.S. high command, with a war-weary public at its back, still willing to incur large casualties merely to hold a little ground? 2) Was the U.S. infantryman, his morale weakened by a Congress-coddling rotation policy that moved him out of the line...