Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great importance that Federal presence, in the form of Federal Marshals, activated National Guardsmen, or members of the Armed Forces, be established in Selma now. The 50-mile Selma-to-Montgomery march, delayed almost two weeks by police brutality and a Federal court injunction, is scheduled to begin shortly, and unless some agency of the United States government is on the scene to protect the demonstrators, there are certain to be more beatings and more whippings...
More than two hours passed before the first flotsam of disaster bobbed to the ocean surface. Then Coast Guardsmen began fishing out the remains: shreds of metal covered with flesh, a child's mitten, a blue snowsuit, a stewardess' jacket, a woman's mohair coat, a paperback copy of Call It Sleep, and-eventually-the body of a little boy. Part of the cockpit floated up, and when rescuers began to lift it out of the water, the headless body of a crew member flopped out into the water...
...Zone. It was the anniversary of the violent riots that killed 21 Panamanians and four U.S. soldiers in January 1964. But this time 100 troopers of Panama's tough Guardia Nacional stood near the zone border. When the riot-minded students and professional leftists came into range, the guardsmen laid down a tear-gas barrage, then expertly dispersed the crowd. Within 45 minutes it was all over, and Panama had passed a milestone of sorts...
...hated 1903 pact that gives the U.S. sovereign ty over the Canal Zone. He allowed the agitators to make their speeches, burn a few U.S. flags and stage their parades along carefully prescribed routes. But he warned against violence, and when the boys got out of hand the guardsmen were waiting...
...Ante. Aware of the long-range stakes, the British last week poured still more reinforcements into Malaysia. Airlifted from London to Singapore were the first of 1,000 paratroopers and Scots Guardsmen. Husky, ruddy-cheeked young tommies in heavy suits and bulky sweaters, they looked like members of an oversize Rugby team. Not many miles away, other British troops stripped protective covering off small, grey woodhull ships-mothballed minesweepers and patrol boats that have been kept ready for use ever since World...