Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regiment-sized column of armored cars and self-propelled artillery. After warning the Turks to submit or else, he sent three successive patrols through the village. When the third one drew fire, Grivas not only opened up on Ayios Theodoros with his vastly superior firepower but also commanded National Guardsmen to overrun the nearby village of Kophinou, whose main offense had been an attempt to replace its Greek name with a Turkish one. In the ensuing three-hour fight, 24 Turkish Cypriots were killed and nine wounded...
...lists, and officials were sternly warned to obey election laws. With rumors of violence spreading in some white neighborhoods, Gary's entire 268-man police force was put on a twelve-hour shift, and Democratic Governor Roger D. Branigin ordered 300 state troopers and 5,000 National Guardsmen to be ready to move into the city on 30 minutes' notice. As it turned out, incumbent Gary Mayor A. Martin Katz noted, "This was the most peaceful election in Gary's history...
...Essay "It's Time to Change the Guard" [Oct. 20] was most thought provoking. However, it should be noted that the manning of 43% of the Nike Hercules missile sites deployed throughout the U.S. is by Army National Guardsmen and not by Air National Guardsmen as your article states...
...these Army National Guardsmen, like the selected Air Guard units, are in a 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year condition of operational readiness. Army National Guard units are an integral part of the U.S. Army Air Defense Command; we are extremely proud of their readiness and capability in the defense of this nation against air attack...
...more oil dumps and rickety railroad bridges were undoubtedly added to the bombing lists Saturday. But if the brass hats took time to look outside, they would have seen their charges--National Guardsmen, paratroopers, and MPs, aided by Federal policemen--flail about with billy clubs at unarmed citizens who crossed an imaginary line...