Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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marines and 2,000 Spanish marines were deployed. High atop a yellow cliff, a Spanish admiral looked down at the smooth flow of men and machines and termed it "an incredibly complex, perfectly organized and flawless operation." It was not entirely flawless. Marine Lieut. Colonel James B. Ord, at an inland command post, noted a column of smoke twisting over pine trees on the horizon. Grumbled Ord: "Some damn fool started a forest fire. I hope they get it out quickly." Then his walkie-talkie man reported: "Two helicopters have collided and crashed." The H-34 choppers, carrying...
...many unspectacular ways, the six-year military dictatorship of Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud was a Pan-African success story. When he seized power in 1958, the Sudan had suffered under three bungling governments in less than three years of independence...
Back to Work. At the fifth-floor office of the morals division at police headquarters, Jenkins identified himself as Walter Wilson Jenkins, giving his rarely used middle name. He gave his address, birth date and birthplace correctly, but listed his occupation as "clerk." Under questioning by Lieut. Louis A. Fochett, he admitted that he was indeed the President's aide. Fochett immediately telephoned Inspector Scott E. Moyer, chief of the morals division, for guidance. Moyer gave a two-word order: "Book...
kidnaped U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Michael Smolen and announced that it was Troi's life or Smolen's (TIME, Oct. 16). But last week Smolen was released unharmed in Caracas, while in Saigon, Troi was tied to a post in the garden of Saigon's Chi Hoa prison and executed by a Khanh firing squad...
...Olympic Games -so often that foreign spectators and athletes caught themselves whistling its familiar strains. "But it's not The Star-Spangled Banner," an Italian insisted defensively. "It's from the first act of Madame Butterfly." At that, it did seem a little reminiscent of Lieut. Pinkerton's visit to Japan. Over the first seven days of the XVIII Olympiad, smashing 10 world and 18 Olympic records in the process, the greatest group of athletes ever assembled under any flag achieved one of the most amazing conquests in the gaudy history of sport...