Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uncontested control of Khorramshahr, up to the banks of the Karun River. But the seemingly endless rows of pockmarked or gutted houses provide vivid proof that the door-to-door fighting was bitter and bloody. Iraqi soldiers recount with incredulity how Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's zealous guardsmen, after their ammunition was exhausted, persisted in fighting to the death with sticks and knives. Said an Iraqi major who conducted some of the mop-up operations: "They were crazy. Many of them wore a gold key around their necks. They said they were told by Khomeini that the key would unlock...
While clearly pleased with this swing back to constitutional government, Washington is concerned that Honduras might be used as a conduit for arms shipped to the Salvadoran guerrillas from Cuba and elsewhere. There have also been reports that thousands of Somoza's former national guardsmen are holed up in Honduras and plotting a counterrevolution against the Sandinistas. Partly to help the Honduran government guard against such in filtration, Washington has offered it a $3.5 million military-aid package...
...local lawyer, incredulously: "With what, their stethoscopes?" Peasants, in particular, are caught in a catch-22 dilemma. Leftist guerrilla organizations often give farmworkers the choice of cooperating with them-or abandoning their farms and crops. But if they go along with the guerrillas, the campesinos are targeted by national guardsmen as "subversives," lined up and shot...
...refugees. They found many of them, frightened and bewildered, holding hands as they walked timidly along country roads. By morning, authorities believed they had rounded up all the escapees and returned them to the base. Though no injuries were reported, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton dispatched 100 National Guardsmen to strengthen the camp's security detail...
...banality of evil. He inspired a visceral contempt among students, who counted on him to supply a symbol of arrogance and decadence. The distaste was mutual. "When dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy," Nixon said, equating protest with murder, on the day four students were killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State...