Word: garrisoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army has done little to restore order. Reinforced by unpopular Northerners, General Huang Yung-sheng's local garrison concentrates on trying to keep the cash-earning flow of fruits and vegetables moving down to Hong Kong, 90 miles away. But even that job may soon become tougher as the feuding Cantonese gather stocks of arms. Only last week Peking wall posters complained that Cantonese rebels hijacked weapons from a ship bound for North Viet...
...which Great Society programs most benefit slum dwellers, but all admit ruefully that they have little concrete evidence to back them up. Partly because administrators have been extremely sensitive to criticism, partly because of political pressure for instant successes, "none of the programs have really been evaluated," says William Garrison, head of Northwestern University's Transportation Center...
...Premier Moise Tshombe but have more recently been on Mobutu's payroll. That mercenary force had by last week battled its way out of a forest encampment near Obokote in Kivu Province and was pushing toward Bukavu near the Rwanda border, where a small government garrison was waiting...
...Wuhan since last April. A formidable foe heads the resistance against the Maoist intruders: General Chen Tsaitao, commander of the Wuhan Military Region and a distinguished career soldier of the People's Liberation Army. In suppressing the Red Guards, he was supported not only by his own garrison but by much of Wuhan's population of skilled workers, who are gathered into an informal defensive grouping called the "Million Heroes...
Peking's response to the "abduction" of its envoys was immediate. Peking garrison troops loyal to Mao made a rare march through the streets of the capital, brandishing placards demanding...