Word: paratroopers
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...declared himself "chef de coup d'état," explained what the fighting was all about: "We want to end politics in the army." The rebels' complaint was that Diem's interference was hamstringing the army's efforts to wipe out Communist terrorism. Chimed in a paratroop captain: "All Diem has done in six years in office is indulge in nepotism. He has generals who don't even command a company. He lives in an ivory tower surrounded by his family, so we must depose him. If we allowed things to continue, it is obvious that...
...enough for the presidency, Eisenhower, in a reminiscent mood, told a G.O.P. audience of the terrible loneliness of decision in the White House, in words that had a beyond-the-battle feeling about the office. On Dday, he related, he had to decide whether to send two paratroop divisions into battle in a sector where a senior adviser predicted 90% casualties. He eventually decided that the paratroops had to be committed to combat, and ''for years thereafter," he said, "I felt that only once in a lifetime could a problem of that sort weigh as heavily...
...will stage summary executions ourselves." In the garrison town of Castiglione, 25 miles from Algiers, a hundred junior officers met in secret to discuss how they could best save the idea of "Algérie Francaise." The army high command, which last January promised to keep pro-ultra paratroopers out of Algiers last week moved a paratroop regiment into the city for "rest after operations...
...Vientiane and fumed. King Savang Vatthana had pointedly declined to invite him to present his credentials. Neutralist Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma canceled the important bad ceremony, in which Buddhist priests were to tie a lucky string around Abramov's wrist. And Souvanna announced the "technical arrest" of Paratroop Captain Kong Le, Vientiane's military boss, on the ground that the expansive reception he staged for Abramov had been unauthorized. Souvanna did not go to the un-Laotian extreme of actually putting Kong Le in custody, but he explained that the arrest would go down as a "black mark...
...easy to forget that the Fifth Republic is the product of a rightist military coup, touched off by fears that the Fourth Republic would sell out in Algeria. Yet, despite such support, the Gaullist government has rapidly cut loose France's colonies and, only two years after the paratroop revolt which brought him to power, de Gaulle dares to speak of autonomy for Algeria. This is indisputable progress, and now he needs time in Algeria, time to establish an atmosphere in which elections are possible, and time to prepare the French public for what must inevitably seem to them...