Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scheduled to speak at Cambridge (pop. 12,500), the Eastern Shore scene of bloody race riots last summer, Wallace was apprehensive. But when he was assured that besides his own small army of bodyguards, 50 state troopers and 400 Maryland National Guardsmen would be on hand to protect him, Wallace decided to keep the engagement...
...moment is a crowded hole in Montparnasse called New Jimmy's, where Novelist Francoise Sagan and cinema's Roger Vadim, Jacques Charrier and Jane Fonda turn up to Hully Gully. London's discotheques range from the superexclusive Annabel's in Berkeley Square, where Guardsmen, debutantes and top-drawer jet-setters can order an excellent full-course dinner as late as 3 a.m., to the come-one-come-all Crazy Elephant in Jermyn Street, where the beat is blue, the mood frenetic, and the Shake is the thing...
Finally, the Viet Cong were virtually surrounded by the original paratroop unit, a second paratroop battalion, infantry and civil guardsmen, and were being pounded by air and artillery that killed or wounded an estimated 100 Reds. But the second paratroop battalion, ordered to move in and block a Viet Cong retreat, timidly stood off, leaving great gaps through which the bulk of the Reds escaped at dusk...
That day, the Pope found no peace himself. King Hussein had tried to provide adequately for the Pope's safety, and an entire brigade of tough Arab legionnaires had been summoned to reinforce police and national guardsmen. But it soon proved not enough. On the 54-mile drive from Amman to Jerusalem, the Pope stopped on the banks of the Jordan, where Jesus had been baptized by John the Baptist. Photographers squirmed through the guarding cordons and jostled the Pope as he walked from his car to the river bank. Hovering over the scene, as a kind of airborne...
Within ten minutes, five guardsmen were fatally wounded. "We had no chance of fighting back," said one of the survivors. "They shot at us at point-blank range, without mercy." The raiders tossed their five victims off the moving train, stopped it long enough to daub F.A.L.N. slogans on the coaches, then backtracked a single coach to a rendezvous point. From there, they escaped in waiting cars...