Word: paratrooper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...file of soldiers wearing red berets and paratroop uniforms edged through the narrow, dark alleys of Algiers' casbah. A shot from a rooftop tumbled one of the soldiers onto the garbage-strewn cobbles, triggering a savage, five-hour battle in which brother killed brother. As the fighting spread, a veiled Moslem woman in a doorway rocked back and forth in grief, keening, "How can this happen? How can this happen...
...Conspirator Soustelle was arrested two weeks ago in Milan, and tossed out of Italy as politically "undesirable." Then he vanished, probably to take refuge in Spain, where S.A.O. Treasurer Dr. Jean-Claude Perez controls an estimated $2,000,000 stolen from Algeria, and where S.A.O. diehards such as ex-Paratroop Colonel Pierre Chateau-Jobert are training additional suicide squads...
From the moment that former Army General James ("Slim Jim") Gavin assumed his duties as U.S. Ambassador to France last year, he came under snipers' fire at home and abroad. He did not speak French and did not know diplomacy, they said. As a World War II paratroop commander, a major general at 37, the Army's chief of Research and Development at 48, he was a contentious man who had quit the Army in 1958 because his views were rejected. How could such a man tiptoe among diplomats? Thus when Gavin's resignation was announced last...
...thick were the crowds that surged to greet Ben Bella's plane when it touched down at Maison Blanche Airport that an Algerian army officer in a paratroop uniform fired a tommy gun in the air to clear a path for him. With sirens screaming, 30 motorcycle cops led the motorcade on a wild ride into downtown Algiers. Switching lanes with abandon and totally disregarding one-way street signs, the cars alternately sped along at 60 m.p.h. or were caught in bumper-to-bumper jams as the screaming populace boiled forward to see its new leader. Finally the caravan...
...have to turn their former colony directly over to Indonesia and that provisions for an eventual plebiscite have been made, the Dutch are expected to accept. What Indonesia does is subject as always to the whim of its mercurial President Sukarno, who has been waging a nasty little paratroop war against the Dutch over the disputed territory. If Sukarno accepts the agreement, it means that he will have to back down from his longstanding boast that he would throw the Dutch out of western New Guinea by next Jan. I. Said an Indonesian diplomat to a Dutch newspaperman...