Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wednesday morning the student Freedom Riders appeared at Montgomery's Trailways bus terminal-ready to head for Mississippi. Alabama National Guardsmen lined both sides of the street in front of the terminal, surveyed the area from the second level of a garage across the street. At 7:15 the first bus pulled out for Jackson carrying twelve Freedom Riders, six National Guardsmen and 16 newsmen. Once out in the countryside, the bus was convoyed by three planes, two helicopters and 17 highway patrol cars. Bobby Kennedy followed the progress of the convoy by a special telephone rig that...
Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt took grim care to ensure the safety of Puerto Rico-born Moscoso. No arrival time was published in the press; inflammatory wall scribblings were quickly erased. The complement of 80 national guardsmen stationed along the superhighway from the airport to the capital was reinforced by 1,200 troops. Sirens screaming, 20 police cars escorted Moscoso to the embassy residence...
...Palace of the Prince of Paradise, the Emperor's main residence, were a mass of twisted iron. Downtown hotels and office buildings were agape with shell holes where, at the height of the rebellion, the loyal 1st Division had fought a pitched battle with 4,500 rebel palace guardsmen. The loyalists won the battle and followed up by storming Prince of Paradise Palace. As the assault began, the panicky rebels brutally machine-gunned 15 top government officials whom they had been holding as hostages in a palace anteroom...
...palace and Clarence House, the London home of the princess. From tall masts in Parliament Square will dangle metal baskets filled with pink hydrangeas and yellow marguerites; gold-tasseled banners, bearing the monograms M and A, are to flutter from 70 flagpoles along a route lined by ramrod-straight guardsmen. The estimated cost: $56,000, or five times as much as was spent on the Queen's wedding to Prince Philip in the austerity year...
...midafternoon, escaped the stream of bullets pumped into the house by a 30-cal. machine gun set up in a general store 200 yards away. Finally, frustrated state police sent an urgent appeal to Governor David Lawrence, who approved use of a Walker bulldog tank manned by National Guardsmen to flush the killer. Rushed in by flatcar, the 25-ton tank lumbered to Chalk Hill, circled the bullet-pocked bungalow as police fired from the cover...