Word: garrisoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grim tale of Viet Cong tactics. By night, clad in black, 200 Communist guerrillas stealthily forded the moat surrounding the sleeping outpost of the government Self-Defense Corps, snipped the barbed wire and charged. Inside, Red agents, who had infiltrated the garrison disguised as recruits, machine-gunned loyal troops in their bunks, set off secretly placed charges that toppled the fort's three watchtowers. By dawn, 28 government men lay dead, 36 wounded, and the Viet Cong had made off with virtually every weapon on the base. Looking about the ruins, a Vietnamese survivor gestured at pools of coagulating...
...decorations for gallantry and extraordinary valor, and he received similar decorations from many other countries. Yet he seldom wore a medal, and he could stand midst a troop of ribbon-festooned heroes and, by the jaunt of his corncob pipe or the tilt of his old but gold-glittering garrison cap, appear positively Olympian. His orations often seemed florid. Yet he could be succinct and moving when the occasion demanded. In early 1942, he was ordered to leave beleaguered Corregidor before it fell to the Japanese. "We go," he cried, "during the Ides of March." And that is when...
...strong -as he put it, "not only for the island's security and return to normal, but also for facing certain other unpleasant situations." Guesses as to what these last might be ranged from repelling an invasion by Turkey to attacking the 7,000-man British garrison to trying to wipe out some of the isolated Turkish Cypriot positions, such as the schoolhouse in Polis where 700 men, women and children are surrounded by Greek Cypriot partisans. A British diplomat said, "Frankly, we don't know what's behind it," but added with feeling that anything that...
...four months, and Turkey last week was stunned when a politically disaffected gunman fired three shots point-blank at Premier Ismet Inonu but missed. On Cyprus the British troops, who have been desperately trying to prevent Cypriots from slaughtering one another, were reinforced by 1,500 men, bringing the garrison to a total...
...plebiscite in which Greek Cypriots voted 97% for enosis. In 1950 Makarios was elected Archbishop of Cyprus and simultaneously became Ethnarch, that is, leader of his people. He founded a militant youth group, which grew into the terrorist EOKA, and fought a savage four-year struggle against the British garrison. Arrested and exiled to the remote Seychelles Islands for a year, Makarios returned in triumph...