Word: mps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.I.s settled down for a long wait, setting up latrine screens off the road and eating hot meals brought in by MPs from nearby Helmstedt, Western statesmen weighed the implications of the blockade. After all, as Khrushchev remarked last week, "A soldier is not a foreign minister. He cannot enter into negotiations and he has to carry out his orders. That is the law for both our soldiers and yours." British and French officials agreed to stage a show of support for the U.S. by mounting convoys of their own to test the Russians. But the Russians waved the allied...
...hours. From the conference hut, booming loudspeakers sprayed the area with the charges and countercharges. Gradually, the sizable crowd of tourists and newsmen that had gathered outside drifted away. Communist soldiers ingratiatingly offered cigarettes and candy to South Korean visitors, but when they tried to talk propaganda, American MPs moved them along. Overhead, flocks of doves, of which Koreans are particularly fond, darted about-but even they were involved in the nasty little frontier cold war. The Communists, before releasing them from the dovecot, had carefully trained the birds to perch only on their own green-painted roofs...
Most of the attackers, operating in darkness as members of a mob, escaped not only injury but arrest. Marshals and MPs took about 200 prisoners, but most of them were soon released for lack of solid evidence. Of those prisoners, only 24 were Ole Miss students; another score or so were students from other Mississippi colleges and from Southwestern at Memphis College. The rest, pretty seedy specimens, were intruders who had nothing to do with any university." A dozen of them, including men from Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas as well as Mississippi, were arraigned on charges of insurrection...
...sector only if they do not display arms. When the Soviet guard showed up with submachine-gun-toting soldiers standing on the sides of the vehicles, General Watson insisted that they climb inside. After a 43-minute argument, the Russians agreed and were escorted to the memorial by MPs. After another three-hour sitdown in which they objected to the escort, the Russians retaliated by dispatching a "quasi-escort" to shepherd a U.S. convoy on the Helm-stedt Autobahn...