Word: noncoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Jake Allex Mandushich, 72, Serbian-born World War I U.S. Army corporal who was decorated by seven nations, won the Medal of Honor at Chipilly Ridge, France in 1918 when as a noncom in the 131st U.S. Infantry he stormed a German machine-gun nest, bayoneted five Germans, captured 15 more; in a Veterans Administration hospital in Chicago...
...attacking the Shah, a backhanded tribute to his popularity. A brooding, impulsive, often irritable man, the Shah at 39 is the one unifying force in the nation. Some of his supporters wish he were more like his father, the decisive, brusque Reza Shah "the Great," who rose from army noncom to the throne of the King of Kings and who showed his displeasure immediately, as when he once dragged a losing jockey from his horse and publicly kicked him in the belly. The young Shah knows that Iran needs a strong, tough hand like his father...
...that "if the French come against us with a hammer, we will become mosquitoes." Instead of a single large army, they concentrated on building small, highly trained cadres. As the nucleus of the F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale) took shape, Mohammed ben Bella, a former French army noncom with a brilliant World War II combat record, negotiated promises of aid from Egypt. Then at i a.m. of All Saints' Day, 1954, simultaneously across Algeria, 30 F.L.N. bands struck. The Algerian war had begun...
...Noncom's War. Last April, Bigeard's enemies succeeded in getting him assigned to command a special school designed to train junior officers in "revolutionary warfare." Unlike many other paratroop officers, he stood aloof from the army coup of last May, earned the further dislike of the balcony generals and colonels of Algiers by scornfully condemning their coup ("The army, instead of waging war, is indulging in politics"). And early this month, when Paris Presse's Reporter Jean Larteguy visited Bigeard's school in search of material for a series on "the sickness of the French...
...only if Bigeard signs a safe-conduct saying that we won't be tortured." Down in the street, tough French Paratroop Colonel Marcel Bigeard ordered a ceasefire, and then watched as the terrorists lowered a small bundle by string to the street. Two French officers and a noncom walked over to inspect this "token of surrender"; it blew up. wounding all three and narrowly missing Bigeard...