Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...security guard paid to protect an electricity substation, has come to work at midnight after taking a few drinks. For reasons of his own he has flipped a bank of switches. For three hours, until power is restored, there is scattered looting of liquor stores, as sheriffs deputies, National Guardsmen and nonstriking city police supervisors try to keep order. At a darkened local hospital, a child is delivered by flashlight...
...exile in Miami of former Panamanian President Arnulfo Arias, a fervid opponent of the pacts. Two nights before Carter's arrival, students who opposed the treaties had fought for several hours with treaty supporters at the University of Panama. Two people were killed and 15 injured before national guardsmen finally restored order...
...Saudis' defense problems that the F-15s could hardly buy the country more than a couple of days of breathing time if it were attacked by any enemy. At the very most, the Saudis have only 96,500 men in their armed forces and reserves, including 41,000 national guardsmen, who are not considered front-line troops. Their air force consists of five squadrons of American-made F-5Es and obsolescent British Lightnings of 1950s vintage. Their navy consists of a converted U.S. Coast Guard cutter, three Jaguar-class PT boats and a few other bits of flotsam and jetsam...
...were all members of the May 4 Coalition, a group opposed to a gymnasium now under construction on the hill where four Kent State students were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen...
...this was a deliberate diversion. I was sure that a killer team must be climbing up the steps to the airplane under cover and unseen." But there was no killer team. In fact, no returning fire came from the DC-8. Instead, astonished Cypriot officials immediately ordered their national guardsmen to shoot the commandos. The Egyptians were caught in a deadly fusillade; the Jeep was hit by grenades, its occupants killed. Most of the outgunned Egyptians took shelter in a nearby plane. Finally they surrendered. Then the hijackers meekly turned over their weapons and gave themselves...