Word: garrisoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot tries unsucessfully to establish a garrison background for the personality clash that is the real story, and merely causes intense boredom. The convolutions of the additional characters are too much to unravel; suffice it to say that all the army types are just that--types--and the women are loyal and kind, if sparingly and stupidly used. Miss York's part, particularly, is wasted, for she disappears about halfway through the film, never to reappear...
...military-industrial complex, their lobbyists in the Pentagon, and the cold warriors in Congress who want to build a Garrison state. You know: juggernaut, and all that...
...scout the forces rising in revolt against Constantinople, Lieutenant Lawrence (O'Toole) impetuously leads a party of picked men across a notoriously impassable waste that is known as "the sun's anvil," and seizes the seaward-sighted cannon of Aqaba from the rear. Stunned, the Turkish garrison surrenders. Startled, General Allenby (Hawkins) offers the young hothead guns and gold, and before long Lawrence and his Arabs are blowing up Turkish trains and garrisons from Medina to Damascus. Then Allenby strikes north from Aqaba, and Lawrence leads 3,000 tribesmen in triumph to Damascus...
Farther to the north-the government outpost of Phuoc Chau-the Reds bit off more than they could handle. It was 3 a.m. when the Viet Cong opened up with a mortar barrage on the badly outnumbered garrison, which was there mainly to protect peasants in a nearby valley who had been paying forced tribute to the Reds. Supported by machine guns, the Communists stormed the barbed-wire perimeter, but were thrown back by the determined fire of the government forces...
...sudden violence, but because the rioters revealed sophisticated political attitudes that made Moscow suspect the existence of an organized underground. Scores of youths tore up their party cards in public, others shouted such slogans as "Back to Lenin" and "Down with the Deceiver." Even the local army garrison of Russians sympathized with the rioters and refused to fire into the protesting crowd. The soldiers who did were central Asian Uzbeks and Kirghizes, who had less objection to shooting Russians...