Word: jeeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colonial infantry with tanks. There is also a new civilian controller, a hulking 200-pounder with clear blue eyes, a granite chin and a flair for calm heroics-Jean Paul Desparnets. 41. Raised in North Africa, where his father taught Arabic, Desparnets goes around unarmed in an open jeep. He is a career civil servant of France, and has served with U.N. commissions in the U.S. and Peru. Almost daily he receives notes from the fellagha. The latest read: "Take back those soldiers you're sending here. They are only girls...
...arrival. As the newsfronts keep shifting in this hot war, Mecklin moves with them. His beat has taken him into the Red River Delta, eastward to the South China Sea, westward into the remote villages of Laos. He has traveled by cyclo (a kind of bicycle wheelchair), by jeep, C-47-and on foot...
Riding Alone. Last week Zouzou tried again. She agreed to take her husband with her, but could she just make an advance trip to Alexandria to rent an apartment? Sure, the commandant said, but take along a soldier guard. "Send him in a jeep," Zouzou said over the phone. "Can't spare a jeep," the officer replied. "Why can't he ride up in front in the Cadillac with the chauffeur?" "Never," said Zouzou. "I always ride in front with the chauffeur." The commandant waited. O.K., said Zouzou, "if the government is so tightfisted, you can send...
Four hours later, somewhat subdued, Zouzou agreed to ride back to Cairo but only in a police jeep. "The Cadillac belongs to my husband," she answered, "and I want no part...
...that time, all the people of Anthele plain had come to know Walter Packard as "Papou" (Grandfather). Children picked wildflowers for him. Church bells in all the villages rang when his familiar jeep was spotted bumping along the road from Athens. Even the road itself was renamed Packard in his honor. But Papou...