Word: paratroop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could lift no more than one battle-ready division to the Middle East, no more than a regiment to Southeast Asia. It would take the Air Force and the Navy together several weeks to move the whole Strategic Army Corps overseas. This was why STRAC's senior officer, Paratroop Major General Robert F. Sink, 53, last week wound up the Army's proud announcements with a tough plea for the Army to get troop-carrier airlift of its own. Cried he: ''These divisions are a bunch of hitchhikers. If we don't have the means...
...police prefect of Paris: "Use your clubs! Use your clubs!" His men complied. In the Place de la Concorde a mob of 6,000 right-wingers led by burly ex-Poujadist Jean-Marie Le Pen -sporting the tricolor sash of a Deputy and the green beret of his old paratroop regiment -came face to face with rifle-toting police drawn up in columns four deep. For a time the mob hesitated. Then, with cries of "Algeria is French!" and "Throw the Deputies into the Seine!", the rightists made a wild rush for the Concorde bridge leading to the National Assembly...
...defied the French government and proclaimed Algiers in revolt last week was a brave and tormented paratroop general named Jacques-Emile-Charles-Marie Massn...
Fighting On. He has hardly ceased fighting since. He served in Indo-China for two years, considered establishing a semimilitary colony of demobilized soldiers there (the way soldiers had settled in Algeria a century before), but instead returned to North Africa to train paratroop commandos, built up an elite corps which worshiped him as "le Pere des Paras" (the Father of the Paratroopers). Led the French paratroop landings in the short-lived Suez campaign in November 1956, became embittered that a political decision to halt the invasion wiped out his rapid gains...
...Then, their ranks grown to 30,000, they jammed the main square for a ceremonial wreath-laying at the war memorial. General Raoul Salan, once commander in Indo-China and now commander in chief of the 500,000 French troops in Algeria, and tall, leathery General Jacques Massu, the paratroop commander, drove up to the war memorial. Shouting "We want Massu!" and "The army to power!", the crowd crushed around the generals' car, hemmed in the guard of honor and the band. Trucks with loudspeakers appeared at the edges of the square, and even during the solemn silence...