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...here." The man had no choice but to accept the humiliation and jog off. A couple and their three friends were ordered to lie on the ground, and then were threatened by more than a dozen Guardsmen armed with automatic weapons. Lieut. General John L. Throckmorton, the Army paratroop commander who took control of the Guardsmen when they were federalized, was asked what he thought of them. "Look," he pleaded, "don't put me on a spot like that...
Governor Romney was even more to the point. "We knew we couldn't depend on the National Guard," he admitted. "That's why we asked for the Army." The paratroopers, some 40% of them Viet Nam veterans and more than one-fourth of them Negroes, displayed stern fire discipline and did an excellent job. "Our policy is to use an absolute minimum of force," explained a paratroop colonel. "I'd rather miss 100 snipers than hit a single innocent person...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Airdrop at Arnhem" recounts the massive Allied paratroop attack behind Nazi lines in Holland on Sept. 17, 1944, and reviews the tragic failure of this bold plan to hasten the end of World War II. Walter Cronkite revisits the area where, as a war correspondent, he parachuted with the 101st Airborne Division, and also interviews the intelligence chief of the Dutch underground. Repeat...
Hastening the End? The government forces did not attack the pagoda that night. There was no need to. Hopelessly surrounded and outgunned, its besieged defenders surrendered the next day, led by a paratroop captain who laid his carbine down at the foot of a tough young government colonel and saluted. That ceremonial gesture signaled an end to the city's nightmare of hysteria...
...months the small West African country of Dahomey had been racked by a three-way tug of war among rival politicians. The tugging ended abruptly one morning late last month when a burly general in a French paratroop uniform with a chest full of medals led his 1,000-man army into the commercial capital of Cotonou. "I am taking over," declared General Christophe Soglo, 56, "because of the incapacity of the politicians to govern." With that, he dissolved the government and declared himself chief of state...