Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paratroopers manning the corridor checkpoints searched every Dominican male for guns before letting him pass. The G.I.s were ordered not to trap the rebels north of the corridor, as Imbert's forces squeezed them up against the line. "We are not going to repulse them," said U.S. Commander Lieut. General Bruce Palmer. "But we won't let them through with their weapons...
...talk among pundits that the pause might be an Administration ploy to give Hanoi a breathing spell that could lead to negotiations. Maybe. But bombings of Viet Cong encampments in the South continued. Indeed, there may have been a good deal of truth in the assessment of Air Force Lieut. Colonel Robinson Risner, veteran pilot in South Viet Nam who was in Washington to get a medal (see PEOPLE). When a reporter asked Risner if U.S. flyers were simply running out of bridges to hit in North Viet Nam. Risner said tersely...
...face of heavy ground fire, Lieut. Colonel James Robinson Risner, 40 (TIME cover, April 23), led his Fighting Cock squadron and 90 other jets into North Viet Nam early last month, and hammered at the critical rail and highway bridge near Thanhhoa until finally it was destroyed. His F-105 was heavily damaged by antiaircraft fire, but he refused to be diverted from his mission. For such "extraordinary heroism," Air Force Chief of Staff General J. P. McConnell last week brought Robbie Risner back from Viet Nam, awarded him the Air Force Cross, second in rank only to the nation...
...Caamaño Deñó, 32, the officer who triggered the revolt on April 24. Caamaño's political background is murky. He is quarrelsome, opportunistic, a plotter who, in the words of one U.S. official, "has the potential of becoming another Fidel Castro." His father, Lieut. General Fausto Caamaño, was boss of Trujillo's secret police, took a leading part in the 1937 slaughter of 15,000 Haitian squatters. Young Caamaño joined the navy in 1950, proved so contentious that he was bucked to the marines, next to the police, finally...
Before 1958, Lieut. General Humberto Delgado was an ornament of the regime of Premier António Salazar. He served for five years as a military .attache in Washington, and was Portugal's representative to NATO. But then Delgado made the mistake of campaigning seriously for the presidency in one of Salazar's mock elections. Defeated, Delgado was promptly fired from his job as director of civil aviation, and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy until he got a guarantee of safe conduct to leave the country...