Word: maraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this time, the attempts at humor have become forced. The gringos maraud their way through Bolivia just for laughs, but we are already hoping for a cease-fire and unilateral withdrawal. The difficulties of robbing a bank in a foreign language provide the only light touches that do not seem strained...
What alarmed U.N. officials most was a report that the unruly soldiers might regroup and head back toward Stanleyville. Word now had reached the maraud ers that their erstwhile chief, Antoine Gizenga. was under house arrest by Adoula's Central Government forces; the unpredictable soldiers just might decide to wage a last-ditch battle on his behalf. In case they did, a U.N. airplane flew up to Stanleyville to transfer Gizenga to Leopoldville. There the rebel was not yet under formal arrest; for the moment he was living under guard in an apartment at U.N. headquarters in the capital...