Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jerusalem, and a mile and a half beyond the Israeli frontier. A light still burned in the village coffeehouse, where a few late gossipers were preparing to depart; on this quiet night, as usual, everyone put his trust in the U.N. "truce" and 30 skimpily armed Jordanian national guardsmen. Suddenly, Israeli artillery, previously zeroed onto target, opened up, and a 600-man battalion of uniformed Israeli regulars swept across the border to encircle the village. For the next 2^ hours the town shuddered under shell bursts and small-arms fire; villagers, screaming and milling, rushed out to the surrounding fields...
...Then the guardsmen's ammo (25 rounds per man) gave out, and the Israelis moved into Kibya with rifle and Sten guns. They shot every man. woman and child they could find, then turned their fire on the cattle. After that, they dynamited 42 houses, a school and a mosque. The cries of the dying could be heard amid the explosions. The villagers huddled in the grass could see Israeli soldiers slouching in the doorways of.their homes, smoking and joking, their young faces illuminated by the flames. By 3 a.m., the Israelis' work was done, and they leisurely...
...RESERVES. Reservists and National Guardsmen, who should be a constant source of Regular Army material, were unjustly handled during the Korean emergency, because of badly organized reserve records. Men with large families and promising careers found themselves suddenly fighting in Korea, while unmarried students or young married men of draft age got easy deferments. Tens of thousands of reservists, exasperated by' this system, have severed their connections with all reserve programs...
...Supreme Court outlaws segregation in the schools? At that, the governor began to fume. Georgia, said he, might well turn "the public schools over to a private system. It is the only thing we can do ... If we don't do this. I have not got enough national guardsmen and the Federal Government enough troops to prevent strife. Blood will flow in rivers...
...dismal, fitful rain stopped at last, or seemed to, shortly before the Queen was to appear. A hoarse command went up, and a bright red ribbon seemed suddenly to unroll along both edges of the Mall-the guardsmen, still beneath their big black bearskins, had doffed their raincapes by the numbers. The thousands cheered. A workman somehow got onto the Mall on a bicycle, pedaled incongruously past, tipping his hat from side to side in Chaplinesque solemnity while the crowd cheered...