Word: militiamen
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Tight Clutch. Songbe (literally "Little River") was defended by a force of 1,000 Vietnamese Rangers, militiamen and U.S. Special Force advisers. Two days before the assault, the Rangers captured a pair of deserters who reported that a strong Communist force numbering nearly 2,500 men had moved into the area and was preparing an attack. Though the Songbe garrison intensified its guard, it wasn't enough. In the dark beyond midnight, while the sky intermittently flared with lightning, the Reds attacked...
...badly chipped bloc, predictably condemned the U.S. for "barbarous" behavior but issued no call for action. Some 2,000 so-called "students"-mostly Asians-unleashed an unbridled attack on the U.S. Embassy, and the Soviet government obviously was embarrassed at the necessity of calling out 600 cops and 500 militiamen to quell the outburst (see THE WORLD...
...time since June 1918 that a Moscow riot had to be put down by force. The cops let fly with whip and truncheon. Screaming "Fascists!" at the militia, the mob fought back with rocks, bricks and clubs. Slingshots sent missiles whizzing at mounted police, and fists struck out at militiamen on foot...
...today would find the free and easy ways and the regimental glamour of her hot-blooded youth in the 1890s to be vastly changed. On the Spanish side, in the little border towns of La Roque and La Linea, the Spanish cavalry has given way to commonplace infantry and militiamen, while on Gibraltar itself the Black Watch and the Lancers are only a memory, currently being replaced by the Middlesex Regiment. The 15-acre parade ground has become an airfield, while Britain and Spain are engaged in more than a sham battle over the Rock...
...better able to handle trucks, switchboards, radar, and all the other devices necessary to even a semi-modern army. This represents a calculated risk, since city youth are not so docile or amenable to discipline as farm boys are. Behind the front-line troops, China has around 12 million militiamen, some of whom are retired combat soldiers with training and experience. Others are soldiers who have done a tour of duty, then have gone back to homes or factories. Since about 500,000 men are demobilized yearly, there is always a good supply for militia duty...