Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intersections. Their first challenge came from an unlighted car that barreled down on a line of troops, hitting and seriously injuring one man. Nearby county marshals halted the vehicle with crackling rifle fire and the Negro driver was killed. After being fired on by pistols and a rifle, one Guard unit opened up for ten minutes with a machine gun on a band of rioters, sent them fleeing. SATURDAY By midday, the number of Guardsmen patrolling the area had swelled to 4,000 and 700 more were being flown in from Fresno. They set about "sweeping" three separate zones totaling...
...will probably be signed by President Johnson in time to fatten servicemen's September paychecks. In another slap at McNamara, a House Armed Services Subcommittee disapproved by an 8-to-l vote the Pentagon's cost-cutting proposal to merge the Army Reserve with the National Guard, supporting the argument of its chairman, Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert, that the merger "would result in an immediate and serious loss in the combat readiness of the affected Reserve units." The House also passed and sent to the Senate a $1.7 billion supplementary military appropriations bill, which provides almost...
...traffic ever seen on any body of water in the world. Desperate Cubans flee north in sailboats, rafts-even inner tubes. At night, weird vessels churn among the mangrove and coral cays on secret missions for no one is quite sure whom. One morning last week, a U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat 65 miles off Cuba drew alongside one of the strangest yet: an aged, 165-ft., grey-hulled converted yacht named the Seven Seas, adrift and seemingly unmanned-until a ragged youth crawled warily from a hatch. "The captain," he shouted, "is dead...
...Both Sargent Shriver and former Vice President Nixon "have excellent vibrations for the good of America and will serve their country well. The former, however, must guard against assassination attempts...
President Johnson's doubling of call may make it almost for draftees to avoid in the Army by enlisting National Guard or Reserves. Saturday, Massachusetts of- flatly barred young men signing up for either of the programs after receiving induction papers. And Lieutenant General Lewis B. Hershey, director of the Selective told the Summer News day that a growing number are insisting that all enter the regular armed...