Word: gurkha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy. Johnston reports a hilltop debate with a priest about faith and heresy. Then, as in a nervous movie, he shifts the scene to a shattered village where hysterical Italians watched a British private thumping out Moonlight Becomes You on a piano in the smoking ruins. Near by, a Gurkha battalion had established its GHQ without bothering to check for snipers in the upper room. A British officer sent his aide to inspect the attic, and when the Gurkha returned, Johnston recorded this conversation...
Marshall stood firm, would not release the prisoners, and would not be tempted to violence, although the colony's 4,500 khaki-clad police kept a 24-hour vigil. Across the causeway, on mainland Johore, tough Gurkha troops waited in reserve...
Then she topples into the bed of Lieut. Colonel Rodney Savage, 13th Gurkha Rifles, who is as effective as Tom Swift in dealing with men and more effective in dealing with women. In his arms Victoria finds "peace" and "ecstasy." But since the colonel is an Englishman, that is not enough. At novel's end, Victoria goes back to her bumbling Anglo-Indian and her own people at Bhowani Junction, where "the lines spread out to every Indian horizon for them...
...first cor respondent in the Pacific, covered the New Guinea campaign, walked an esti mated 600 miles in forays behind enemy lines in Burma with Merrill's Marauders, rode the first convoy over the Ledo-Burma Road from India to China, dropped into Japanese-held Rangoon with Gurkha paratroops, and was awarded the Legion of Merit by General Douglas MacArthur...
Last week, Gurkha jungle fighters, acting on an informer's tip, set an ambush in the mountainous jungle. Into it walked Manap Jepun carrying a Sten gun. A fusillade of shots brought him down...