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...Guards and laid siege to government installations. Peking wall posters told of fighting in the high Himalayan redoubt that left 100 or more dead. Chang, who commanded the 100,000 Chinese troops that seized Tibet in 1951 and who later directed the invasion of India, declared martial law and sat back to await the arrival of three army divisions said to have been dispatched from China proper to "crush the revisionists." Radio Moscow reported last week that anti-Maoist army units had seized "nearly full control" of Inner Mongolia, and wall posters in Peking confirmed that a titanic struggle between...
Weary U.S. troops found the change more than welcome, for two less martial men than Hope and Graham can scarcely be imagined. The fact that they could challenge the war for attention was evidence that the fighting had slacked off even before this week's formal 48-hour Christmas truce went into effect. A good many people, moreover, were trying hard to extend the lull into a permanent ceasefire...
...Leoni would respond mildly. After all, other recent terrorist incidents had led him to send out a few additional street patrols, and not much else. But this time, Leoni's army demanded action. Going on nationwide television, the President abruptly placed the country under a form of martial law, announced that he was putting the full force of the military into a war on subversion. Said he: "My government is determined to eliminate the treacherous conspiracy of those who are trying to carry out their adventurers' plans with Fidel Castro and his protectors...
Like West Germany itself, the massive grey and golden eagle that hung above the rostrum of the Bundestag looked pleasantly plump, more mercantile than martial and, with its blunted wings and studded breast, convincingly contemporary. Beneath it last week the 17-year-old Federal Republic of Germany swore in a new Chancellor whose accession to power marks the close of the postwar chapter of Germany's history and the birth of a new spirit and a new approach to the world for its 57 million people...
...order to halt the smuggling, the Congo government has put major mining areas under martial law and increased the fines and jail sentences on contraband gem carriers. Kassanda is urging even stronger measures. "If not, smugglers will continue the traffic using their secret cavities," he says, "and all the fingers of the mines' police will not be enough to block the smuggling of our diamonds...