Word: militiamen
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...carcasses." More than two weeks after the storm had shrieked across the low-lying Ganges River Delta, the enormity of the havoc wrought by its 120-m.p.h. winds and 20-ft. waves could still only be sensed, not measured. Toward week's end, some 6,000 Ansar militiamen and volunteers trudged into the flatlands to begin burying, for $2 a corpse, the rapidly decomposing bodies claimed by what Pakistanis have already begun to call "the second Hiroshima...
...police and militiamen swept through Quebec in a week-long blitz that involved 1600 raids and bagged more than 375 prisoners, it became clear that the government was carrying out a well-coordinated strategy of political terror. Very few of those arrested could be directly linked to the FLQ; most were a broad assortment of politicians, labor leaders and other public figures who sympathized with the underground terrorist group but did not endorse its activities...
...peaceful for the most part. The inevitable sprinkling of troublemakers managed to create some problems for the police, but the more than 6,000 regular troops and militiamen who were being held in readiness had little...
...years ago, he quickly set the former French colony on a course toward what he called "scientific socialism." His National Revolutionary Movement became the sole political party, and the members of its armed youth group, the Jeunesse, ruled the streets of Brazzaville. To guard the palace and to train militiamen, Massamba-Debat imported Cuban advisers. A good deal of economic aid and advice came from China and the Soviet Union, and the President paid a visit to Peking...
Frankly bidding for worker support in their cause, the students demanded university admission for more students from working-class backgrounds. Tito, in order to head off any such potent alliance of workers and students as that in France last month, ordered plastic-helmeted militiamen to patrol outside the university and banned all public demonstrations. He was also quick to throw a bone in the workers' direction, ordering the minimum wage of $12 a month doubled immediately. Within hours, dozens of published messages poured into student headquarters from factory Communist committees, most agreeing vaguely to aims of reform...