Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their part, the police and National Guardsmen kept their gunfire to a minimum (two Negroes were treated for minor gunshot wounds). The real heroes of Tampa were the members of the "City Youth Patrol," a hastily organized band of 150 young Negroes-many of whom had hurled rocks and fire bombs the night before-who tramped the slums in white hard hats and warned the mobs to cool it. By midweek, thanks to their efforts, the temperature of violence had fallen enough for Governor Kirk to order the National Guard back to their homes...
...took the place of whiny Arab folk songs on Radio Cairo. The absentee-prone Lebanese parliament, perhaps the world's most unmartial body, became so incensed that it took the warlike step of ending its emergency session with a wildly off-key singing of the national anthem. National Guardsmen in Da mascus had a fine time stopping all traffic on the city's wide boulevards and ordering everyone to take shelter-even though nothing more ominous appeared in the sky than a few vultures. In Israel, though it was the Sabbath, on which traveling is a profanation...
...turret, cried out encouragement to the citizenry as he rode to the state capitol. In Gary, winds off Lake Michigan piled up 15-ft. snowdrifts, and Indi- ana's Governor Roger Branigin mobilized a National Guard unit to clear the roads-only to find that many of the Guardsmen were themselves snowed...
...mostly peasants just in from the country, fled to the nearby Gran Hotel, where they took 117 guests as hostages, including 89 Americans. For 24 hours, Nicaraguan army machine-gun and rifle fire slapped against the hotel's faded green stucco walls. The total death toll was four guardsmen and 60 civilian rebels. None of the foreigners were killed...
Shelley telephoned Governor Edmund Brown, campaigning in San Diego, to ask for 2,000 National Guardsmen. Patrolling both the Hunter's Point and Fillmore ghettos with fixed bayonets and orders to "shoot to kill-take no guff from anyone," the Guard ended the melee in two nights. All told, 51 people were injured, 267 arrested...