Word: gated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Szili went to bed. But he was awakened by a military policeman, who told him that Jackson had found Lopez snooping around an ammunition storage area, arrested the Cuban, and now wanted help. Szili joined Jackson, and the two took Lopez to a long-unused rear gate to kick him off the base. But they found the lock rusted tight, and Szili went away to get a sledge hammer...
When Szili returned, the gate was open and neither Jackson nor Lopez was in sight. Szili began running in search of them; he met Jackson, who had managed to open the gate by himself, running back to find him. According to Szili, Jackson said he had been walking Lopez outside the base "toward a path that went back to civilization"; Lopez "jumped" Jackson, who fired his .45 in self-defense. Lopez tumbled over a cliff...
Instead, Premier Cyrille Adoula's government dispatched the Congolese army commander, General Joseph Mobutu, and units of red-bereted paracommandos to the police compound. Ordering his men not to shoot, Mobutu opened the camp's gate and strode in alone and unarmed to face the mutineers. Roughly he yanked the ringleaders out of the mob one by one, and demanded that they give up. With that the revolt collapsed, and Mobutu-his well-creased trousers stained with a spot of blood-ordered the mutiny's leaders stripped to their underwear and driven off to jail through...
...Never Bend, the richest horse of all, a dark bay with $502,484 in his bankroll. At post time, Candy Spots was the 3-2 favorite; No Robbery was 5-2; Never Bend was the close third choice at 3-1. The rest of the field went into the gate at odds...
...operation of this whole structure has been less than satisfactory. Regional officers change every year, and hardly learn their jobs before they leave. The mobile P.V.P.'s are hard to call on for aid once they have driven out of the campus gate. In any case they only get to a small minority of campuses, and then only for a mere brief visit. Regional officers have proved almost impotent in helping some poor confused NSA coordinator, who wants to "educate" his fellows but hasn't the slightest idea of how to go about that rather large task...