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...supremacy, and in the early hours of the second day of fighting, the Egyptian air force did not even take to the air to support ground troops. Israeli planes penetrated deep into Egypt, knocking out missile systems and other defenses. Defense Minister Dayan said that the mop-up might take several days, but he predicted that the curious battle of Yom Kippur was already decided...
...Traditionally the Church has entered into military conflicts only once all the fighting is done. It is time we worked to prevent such conflicts, instead of being a mop-up group," he said...
...progressed, the chants turned into terrible reality. In captured village after village, frontline troops were followed by ragtag "sweepers" from Northern Nigeria. They nailed Ibo tribesmen to the walls of their wooden huts, then sprayed them with automatic-rifle fire or set torches to their clothes. "Mop-up" soldiers raped women, sometimes lined up whole villages to be shot. The Ibos concluded that the Hausa tribesmen fully intended to use the war to systematically exterminate them. This fear, more than anything else, has hardened the Biafran determination to fight on to the end. "We shall all return to our villages...
...mop-up, several of the invaders were killed and eight were captured. The others managed to escape into the countryside, either going into hiding or fleeing toward the Dominican border. On the one plane that did not get away, the B-25 that had bombed Port-au-Prince, the government claimed that it had found anti-Duvalier leaflets ("Down with crime! Down with misery! Down with Duvalier!"), implicating New York's Haitian Coalition, a group of exiles bent on Duvalier's overthrow. To try to fix the blame, Duvalier had the eight prisoners flown to the capital...
Nine Dragons & Three Phases. The new doctrine is needed because the Viet Cong had long been brain-fed on Mao Tse-tung's legendary Three Phases to Communist triumph: 1) political activity, 2) guerrilla warfare, and 3) the final mop-up of the reeling enemy by large-scale fighting in conventional military formations. The U.S. intervened just as the Viet Cong were about to leave behind the rigors and hardships of Phase Two, and march out in strength to claim South Viet Nam. Since then they have tried periodic Phase Three attacks-and been badly mauled by American troops...