Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iceland. The resolution of Iceland's Parliament for the withdrawal of U.S. troops (TIME, April 9) is "understandable," said Dulles, in that the 5,000-man U.S. garrison was a large one for Iceland's 160,000 people to absorb: "There is, I think, a feeling in Iceland that perhaps the recent Soviet moves make this less necessary. But I do not think that it is reflective of anything other than a desire to minimize the presence of foreign troops, insofar as it can safely be done." Still open for discussion at a future NATO meeting: "The question...
...Major General Garrison H. Davidson, 51, onetime (1933-38) West Point football coach, since 1954 commandant of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
...Peru, Brigadier General Marcial Merino rebelled with his 10,000-man Jungle Division on the upper Amazon (TIME, Feb. 27), and said, in effect, to the country's other garrison commanders: "I move that we overthrow President Manuel Odria." Strongman Odria hastily shifted several doubtful generals out of high command. By last weekend it was clear to Merino that no one was going to second his motion. In a voice choked with suita ble emotion, he surrendered to the government by long-distance telephone from his headquarters in the river port of Iquitos, then took asylum in the Brazilian...
Soon after sunup the rest of the garrison was standing at attention in the treelined Plaza de Armas. Brigadier General Marcial Merino Pereyra, their commander, read off a manifesto explaining to his men why he had led them into rebellion against Strongman Manuel Odria. They would, he promised, "open the front door for democracy in Peru, and guarantee absolutely free elections." Townspeople gawked, then drifted off to work...
...river patrol craft. Moreover, most of the troops were inaccessibly camped in scores of jungle outposts, and even the Iquitos headquarters was isolated from Lima by 700 miles of mountains and jungles. Merino's strategy obviously was to sit tight, with an impressive force-in-being that other garrison commanders all over Peru might decide to join. When and if rebels outnumbered loyalists, Odria would fall...