Word: paratrooper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last May, at the Panther Mayday demonstrations, everybody went to New Haven expecting the worst. Paratroop divisions were airlifted in from North Carolina, Yale organized a corps of medics incredibly well equipped. Papers that weekend printed sections on first aid and self defense...
...Mobutu's own survival has been the army and, specifically, the 5,000-man paratroop guard made up mostly of kinsmen from his own small Bangala tribe. Even today, Mobutu spends his nights at a luxurious villa in the paratroopers' camp outside Kinshasa. From the beginning, Mobutu has ruled with an iron hand. He dissolved the Parliament, the 44 political parties and seven trade unions, and cracked down hard on student dissidents and potential rivals alike. To charges of dictatorship he replies angrily: "It was the foreigners who taught Africans to boo their chiefs and who introduced...
...Monument. Mobutu is very happy in the role of a grand chief. He flies around Kinshasa in an Alouette helicopter piloted by a silver-haired Swede, drives about in Mercedes 600 limousines and sails the Congo River in his yacht the M.S. President Mobutu. Besides his house in the paratroop camp, he maintains a palace on Kinshasa's Mount Stanley and lavish villas in Lausanne and Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. To counteract rumors that he is a neocolonialist at heart, he has sought to identify himself with his old enemy Patrice Lumumba. Currently he is building...
ARIEL ("ARIK") SHARON, the paratroop general who heads the southern command of Israel's defense forces, is so fond of the Hebrew couplet that he has hung it over the entrance of his Beersheba headquarters. But the exuberant confidence that once made it so fitting has disappeared in Israel. A note of doubt is creeping in. From Mount Hermon down to the Red Sea, Israel dispatched her Arab foes with relative ease in three wars. But now there is a new unknown to cope with in the form of Russia's dramatically increased presence in the Middle East...
Many of Tri's early battles were political. He began making a name for himself in the mid-1950s, when he was a young lieutenant colonel commanding a paratroop unit in Saigon. When word came that three top generals were being detained in the presidential palace by one of the factions backing the late President Ngo Dinh Diem, Tri telephoned a brash ultimatum: "Free the generals in one half-hour or I will destroy the palace and everything inside it." One of the rescued generals was Nguyen Van Vy, now South Viet Nam's Defense Minister...