Word: outpost
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ZULU. A bit of bloody British history, vintage 1879, makes a grisly good show as a doughty band of redcoats defends an African outpost against 4,000 proud Zulu warriors...
ZULU. A bit of bloody British history, vintage 1879, makes a grisly good show as a doughty band of redcoats defends an African outpost against 4,000 proud Zulu warriors...
...break the telephone connection between Nicosia and Ankara. Then one day, at the very center of Nicosia, on the Green Line along Paphos Street, the Turkish Cypriots decided to move their sandbagged post a few yards toward the Greek Cypriot positions. The Greeks retaliated by setting up a new outpost of their own. Suddenly both sides began shooting; when it ended, one Greek Cypriot was dead and two were wounded...
...Turkish jets riddled a Greek Cypriot patrol boat, and the crew ran it ashore. Swedish U.N. troops tried to arrange a truce at Kokkina to remove women and children. When the combatants refused, the Swedes entered the village in armored cars and evacuated the refugees. Troops at a U.N. outpost, caught between two fires, had to be rescued by helicopter...
That point was well illustrated last week when the Viet Cong guerrillas struck punishingly across the Mekong Delta. For the umpteenth time, an army battalion hurrying to relieve an outpost under attack-this time 120 miles south of Saigon-walked into an ambush in broad daylight...