Word: militia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they spotted Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko's black Chaika limousine behind the barred iron grille of the castle, the crowd cried, "Russians, go home!" "We have the truth, they have the tanks!" For a moment, the gates threatened to give way, but a squad of Czech police and militia managed to push the crowd back. The Soviet ambassador left by the back door...
...from their villages for a few days into the mountains, where old partisans and army experts show them the location of arms caches, teach them how to use the weapons and instruct them in the use of radio transmitters. In addition, thousands of workers are being organized into irregular militia at their plants. All told, the Yugoslavs could probably put about one million men into their rugged, forbidding hills to harass any invader with guerrilla tactics...
...Wherever Ceausescu went, he assured his audiences that Rumania would fight if invaded. Though he did nothing comparable to Tito's open show of force, military preparations were quietly under way. Reserve officers were called up over the weekend for "exercises." In Bucharest, members of a newly formed militia, officially called "patriotic armed detachments of workers, peasants and intellectuals, defenders of the independence of the country," were issued guns and drilled briskly. Responding to reported shifts of Bulgarian armored units to the Danube River border, the Rumanians moved tanks within striking distance of the bridge at Giurgiu-a high...
...anywhere than four Air Guard squadrons mobilized straight into combat in Viet Nam. "Nobody's got a bitch about being here," claims Captain Thomas Risan, an airline pilot now bombing and strafing Viet Cong fortifications with the 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Phan Rang. Calling themselves the "Raggedy-Ass Militia of Happy Valley," the 25 pilots and 350 maintenance crewmen of the 120th TFS have racked up more than 1,000 missions since reaching Viet Nam early in May. "What we got was real pros," says a regular chicken colonel at Phan Rang. "I thought we were going...
...troops who will act as guides and scouts for regular forces flooding in from the countryside once the offensive begins. Farther out in the countryside-an area that they consider already "liberated"-they have ordered their forces to establish "G.I. killing belts" around U.S. installations. Near the tiny Vietnamese militia outposts, their favorite ploy is to use loudspeakers to sympathize with men "drafted for an unjust cause" and invite them to move out of the camp...