Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...match, and at last to overcome, the kind of coverage Britain was getting last week on American television. The anchorman heavies (Rather, Chancellor, Walters, Brokaw) arrived early to cover the preparations, but soon wearied of the familiar banalities -curbside interviews with the first people to stake out viewing spots, guardsmen shining their boots, the trafficking in gimcrack souvenirs. They had come to cover a spectacle but got themselves diverted by the earthier scent of real news. It was point and counterpoint all week...
...play an important role supporting regular troops, which would take heavy casualties in the early days of a conventional war fought with modern weapons. Most weekend-warrior units are not only undermanned, but their equipment is often so crude as to make training exercises a joke. Example: National Guardsmen use ancient radio equipment that still has 1950s-era vacuum tubes. If ordered to Europe, as they would be in case a war broke out, they literally could not talk to the regular Army units they supposedly would fight beside...
More than 500 National Guardsmen carted the fruit away, burying an estimated 750 tons in Santa Clara landfill dumps. Roadblocks had been set up at three points and produce was confiscated from 12,661 of the 286,240 cars and trucks checked. But aerial support was vital, and many Californians, especially farmers, were angry that spraying did not start sooner. At first Governor Jerry Brown had resisted, evidently concerned that he would alienate his strong environmentalist constituency. He changed his mind when U.S. Agriculture Secretary John Block began planning a quarantine. Complained California Senator S.I. Hayakawa: "Brown should have done...
...strike lasted eight months. Both sides bled plenty. The Wobblies had to do their own bleeding. Old Elihu hired gunmen, strike breakers, national guardsmen and even parts of the regular army, to do his. When the last skull had been cracked, the last rib kicked in, organized labor in Personville was a used firecracker...
...week's end, the Salvadoran government confirmed reports that it had arrested six men, probably National Guardsmen, two weeks ago for the December murders of four women missionaries, including two Maryknoll nuns. The soldiers were not identified, but Salvadoran officials said the U.S. embassy knows the names. The arrests were said to have followed a telephone call from Secretary of State Alexander Haig to President Duarte demanding action. Six National Guard rifles were sent last week from El Salvador to FBI headquarters in Washington for ballistics tests. The bullets will be compared with a number taken from the scene...