Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the allies reached Hwachon and Inje, across the parallel on the east-central front, they cut off an estimated 60,000 Chinese from escape by road. Most of them would probably filter out along tortuous mountain trails, but could take almost no equipment with them. The enemy had already abandoned huge caches of arms and other supplies. On the Imjin River, a U.N. unit came across a Chinese dump containing 200 machine guns and several hundred tons of ammunition, some of it previously captured from U.S. forces...
...Hour after hour, French army planes circled Morocco's barren Atlas Mountains. Turbaned goumiers, the fierce Moroccan troops, scrambled through narrow ravines and over rocky ridges. Gendarmes followed police dogs straining for a scent over the mountain passes. In all, some 12,000 hunters were combing the hills for a rifle-toting tribesman who in one week had murdered seven people, wounded two others...
...Picnickers. The fugitive, dubbed by French newsmen "the Mad Moor," had begun his killing spree on Whitsunday (May 13), when André Souvignon, a young French official, picnic-bound in the family Renault, met him on a twisting mountain road near Ben el Ouidane. Without warning, the killer had stepped from behind a cactus bush, pumped shot after shot into the car, killed Souvignon and his mother, wounded another couple. On the same road, three miles farther on, police found the crumpled, blood-drenched body of a 26-year-old Parisienne named Helene Meunier, who had motorcycled into the hills...
Commanded by Lieut. Colonel Jaime Polania Puyo, a veteran of 22 years in the Colombian army, the battalion has been training for four months in mountain country around Bogotá to get ready for Korea's rugged terrain. The troops are equipped with U.S. Army uniforms and materiel (paid for with Colombian cash), and have been checked out on North American infantry weapons by twelve Spanish-speaking U.S. Army noncoms...
...chain of more than 500 theaters admitted that its attendance was down 43% from 1946's high. (Unaffected: its theaters in the almost TVless Rocky Mountain area...