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...rolled into the riot zone in convoys led by Jeeps with mounted machine guns. Officers set up a command post at Riis High School, while infantrymen, advancing with bayonets at the ready, fanned out through the littered streets and assembled .50-cal. machine guns on tripods at intersections. Their first challenge came from an unlighted car that barreled down on a line of troops, hitting and seriously injuring one man. Nearby county marshals halted the vehicle with crackling rifle fire and the Negro driver was killed. After being fired on by pistols and a rifle, one Guard unit opened...
...defensive in Asia. But racial feeling also works against China, for many Asians have a centuries-old fear of the Chinese and it is at least as strong as their anti-white prejudice. The greatest threat Peking holds over its Asian neighbors is its army-2,500,000 infantrymen, a 12-million-man militia-which could inundate the continent if all its subversive stratagems should fail. That is why Viet Nam is the ultimate test of Peking's policies: if the U.S. backed away from the threat of Chinese intervention, it would lend powerful support to the untested notion...
...hours later, police began rounding up more than 300 known Communists and extremists belonging to the pro-Communist National Liberation Front. Meanwhile, Belaúnde ordered 100 anti-guerrilla commandos and 500 infantrymen into the central highlands, along with helicopters, Canberra bombers and light artillery...
...process, he has rescued 800 wounded soldiers and carted home more corpses than he cares to remember. To help counter the pervasive stench of death and mutilation, MEDEVAC pilots and crewmen stuff their nostrils with Vicks VapoRub. And they are curiously unwilling to make friends with infantrymen. "You don't want to get too close to people when you know tomorrow they may be dead," Bloomquist explains. "There's no place for sentiment in this business...
Alvim called on both loyalists and rebels to "demonstrate democratic and humanitarian understanding by finding a dignified formula for the re-establishment of a lasting peace." That was obviously a long way off, but to underscore his message, General Alvim sent a battalion of Brazilian infantrymen to secure Santo Domingo's bullet-pocked National Palace on the fringe of the rebel zone. From the first days of the civil war, the palace had been held by Imbert's loyalists, who beat off rebel attacks. Now Alvim wanted the shooting to cease. As the OAS troops marched...