Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon jeeps and trucks, bulldozers and tank trucks were trundling up the rugged mountain roads. The Forest Service called in National Guardsmen and volunteer crews from prisons (including the "Stanislaus Hotshots" who fought twelve forest fires without a single convict trying a single escape). It flew in 225 Zuni and Hopi Indian fire fighters, mobilized in all 1,200 men from foresters to migrant fruit pickers. Crew bosses hustled them through smoke and heat to the fire line, 40 miles long...
...message asked for a four-year extension of the regular draft, a two-year extension of the doctors' draft, an active reserve program with stiff penalties for absentees, active basic training for National Guardsmen and, most controversial of all, six months' basic training-at $30 a month and without veterans' benefits -for teen-agers who would avoid the draft and accept a 9½-year obligation of service in the reserve...
...mounting dissatisfaction, in Kenya and in Britain, over the conduct of the Mau Mau war. Despite periodic announcements that the guerrillas were on the run, 7,000 Mau Mau, armed with homemade guns and spears, are pinning down a division of British regulars and 28,000 Kikuyu Home Guardsmen, Masai spearmen and Samburu trackers. Erskine, to his credit, succeeded in penning the Mau Mau into a mountain redoubt: the tangled Aberdare highlands. But his bluntly stated conviction that bullets alone would never wean the mass of the Kikuyu tribe away from their Mau Mau sympathies antagonized many of the crustier...
...Prisoner." Soon after Miró had finished his confession, steel-helmeted guardsmen ringed Guizado's hilltop house overlooking the capital. "I am under the impression that I am a prisoner," said the worried Guizado, talking on the telephone...
...midst of a political upheaval following the murder of a candidate for attorney general and the revelation of a pack of other high crimes (TIME, June 28). But before Graham could reply, the answer came from a different quarter. Announced Major General Walter J. Hanna who with his National Guardsmen is running the city under martial law: the invitation was "foolhardy"; Billy's appearance would create a police and traffic problem in a city where an impossible one already exists...