Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eked out his scholarship by rooming in a ramshackle farmhouse). Back in Whittier, he met and married Pat Ryan, a pretty red-headed schoolteacher who, if anything, had come along an even more hardscrabble road (TIME cover, Feb. 29). After naval service in the Pacific during World War II, Lieut. Commander Nixon found himself in Baltimore, wondering, like many another young veteran, what to do with himself. He caught wind of a Whittier newspaper ad, paid for by a group of 100 leading Republicans...
...days of nonstop flying, U.S. transports brought in some 7,000 U.N. troops, carried away some 10,000 refugees. Says Lieut. Colonel Frank Merritt, in command of operations at the Leopoldville end: "The boys have been at it long, hard hours, and so have the planes. Some of my boys have had to go 36 hours without sleep. Our Hercules planes have had remarkably little maintenance -they're the best damn planes we've ever...
Dense Air. Among the early loads were dismantled U.S. Army helicopters and a couple of seven-passenger de Havilland Beavers. Assembled in a matter of hours, they were set to work under the command of Lieut. Colonel Jerome B. Feldt of Kansas, flying into the bush to pick up handfuls of isolated missionaries...
Lumumba went into hiding, but Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko had the courage to mount a chair outside Parliament and quiet the rioters. He led a delegation of three sweaty soldiers to Prime Minister Lumumba. Their demands: 1) removal of the Belgian commander in chief, Lieut. General Emil Janssens, a strict disciplinarian, 2) replacement of all other Belgian officers and noncoms by Congolese, 3) general raises in pay and rank. Lumumba hastily agreed. In the most sweeping army promotion in history, he advanced every Congolese soldier by one grade, making the Force Publique the only army in the world without...
Returning to Léopoldville, Prime Minister Lumumba gratuitously added new fuel to the flames. He blamed the mutiny on Lieut. General Janssens, who, he said, had refused to accept proposals for the Africanization of the army; he blamed the scare about Soviet "invaders" on Belgian agents, and summoned the Belgian ambassador to make the fantastic charge that he had uncovered a Belgian plot to murder him. "The assassins were discovered and arrested in my residence," cried Lumumba. "They were armed to the teeth." Everything that was happening, Lumumba insisted, was a Belgian plot to discredit the Congolese government...