Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was a single flaw, and it was fatal. Lieut. Harfad Sardoun, one of the six pilots, passing himself off to the conspirators as a secret Baathist, was in fact working for the regime. As the plotters' plans firmed up in late August, Sardoun fed details to Aref's police. Aref made no move until Sept. 3, eve of the coup. Then, overnight, loyal army units and police swooped down on Camp Rashid. The five Baathist pilots were rounded up and executed. Colonel El Jabouri and most of his officers of the 4th Armored Brigade were clapped...
Married. Mamie Eisenhower Moore, 22, Mamie's niece; and 2nd Lieut. Steven James Rees, 22, serving in the Army's ceremonial Old Guard Battalion at Fort Myer, Va.; at the post chapel...
...Died. Lieut. General Robert Whitney Burns, 56, patron saint of all G.I.s, who in 1959, as commander of U.S. forces in Japan, recalled a homeward-bound airliner, personally removed a rank-pulling lieutenant colonel, his wife and four children, and placed back on board the six emergency-furloughed enlisted men "bumped" by the vacationing colonel; after a long illness; in San Antonio...
...river town of Stanleyville was still firmly in revolutionary hands-and with it some 300 white residents who had been trying desperately to get out since the rebel invasion five weeks ago. Concerned for their safety, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last week cabled his personal "urgent appeal" to Lieut. General Nicholas Olenga, Stanleyville's rebel commander, to allow the U.N. to send planes to evacuate them...
...owns a home there on which he pays taxes like any other resident. Yet last January, when he and his wife paid poll taxes, Mabry's receipt (unlike his wife's) was stamped "not eligible to vote." Precisely the same thing happened to his friend, Air Force Lieut. David M. Sneary, 26, a former Oklahoman...