Word: gurkha
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When it finally erupted, the revolt was poorly organized and badly led. Four battalions of Britain's tough little Gurkha troops landed on Brunei, inside of a week sent the shattered remnants of the 3,000-man rebel army scuttling back into hiding in Brunei's steaming jungles...
...Hawker Hunter jets of the R.A.F. buzzed low over rebel emplacements firing blank 20-mm. cannon shells; many rebel troops fled in terror because they had never before heard the shriek of a jet engine. Other rebels fought on, inflicted substantial casualties on Britain's tough little Gurkha troops. The Gurkhas retaliated by lopping off a few rebel heads. Finally British numbers began to tell and the rebels faded away into the jungle...
...indicated that General Brij Mohan Kaul, 50, the border commander, was beginning to use to good advantage the U.S. and British automatic weapons and heavy mortars being flown in around the clock. At Kaul's headquarters in Tezpur, India's venerable President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 74, visited hospitalized Gurkha, Sikh and Jat soldiers, many of whom had wandered famished and freezing through the mountains for 17 days after the big Chinese breakthrough last month. "Morale is high," Radhakrishnan told newsmen. "All the troops say, 'Give us the tools and we will regain our lost territory.'" He blamed...
...good faith any longer, nor in the Western nations who guaranteed U Thant's plan." For Propaganda. Infuriated U.N. officials in Leopoldville accused Tshombe of deliberately staging the clash by ordering 100 Katanga gendarmes to encircle and attack a Jeep-borne patrol of 20-not 500-Gurkha troops. Though the U.N. commander admitted that "someone might have been hit," Acting Secretary-General U Thant's office in Manhattan called the incident "a cynical effort to gain a propaganda advantage." In any case, the U.N. was the loser. U Thant's plan would have forced Katanga to integrate...
...Europe's defense and can be airlifted anywhere else on earth to fight brushfire actions or full-scale war. This week, in preparation for their new role, they will begin intensive training in tactical nuclear armaments-though no weapon ever devised has proved more deadly in a Gurkha's hands than the curved, foot-long kukri, or knife, that they still carry at their belt and superstitiously refuse to unsheathe except to draw blood...