Word: paratroops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last Cassius got down to business -so to speak. With his brother Rudolph Valentino Clay, he jogged around London, wearing a sweat suit and paratroop boots, sparred a few desultory rounds, and gave away postcard-size pictures of himself. "Had five, ten thou sand of these printed," Clay explained. Spotting a pretty Negro girl in a crowd, Cassius whistled softly and whispered to friend Ronald King: "Go talk to her, man. That's the cutest thing I've seen since I've been here...
...rebel junta that plotted Kassem's overthrow was apparently made up of captains and lieutenants, except for its leader, ex-Paratroop Colonel Abdul Mustafa. But the man they put forward as their front man came as a shock to Kassem, fighting for his life inside the battered Defense Ministry. The junta named as its new rebel head of state Colonel Abdul Salam Aref, 41, long Kassem's closest friend and most loyal disciple, and alive only because Kassem commuted his 1959 death sentence...
...them, Clyde Kennard, 35, never came close. A Korea paratroop veteran, Kennard attempted three years ago to register at the University of Southern Mississippi, in his hometown of Hattiesburg. While he was talking to Mississippi Southern's president, local law officials "discovered" illegal liquor in his car and arrested him. Convicted and fined on the liquor offense, Kennard was still appealing the case when he was convicted as an accessory in the theft of five sacks of chicken mash. His alleged accomplice, an illiterate 14-year-old Negro who said he had actually stolen the stuff and turned...
...every major population center in the province. Only the western copper town of Kolwezi remained in Katanga's grip; it was defended by 2,000 boozy gendarmes, 100 of Tshombe's white mercenaries, and a smashing blonde ambulance driver known as "Madame Yvette," who sauntered about in paratroop boots, camouflage uniform, bush hat and shoulder holster. Only 50 miles from Kolwezi, Indian infantrymen probed cautiously forward, waiting only for the signal to head full blast toward the town. But the signal would not be given rashly, for the ragtag mercenaries threatened to blow up a huge...
...Plan. What alarms the U.N. most is the shaky position of the head of the central government in Leopoldville, Premier Cyrille Adoula, who has taken to sleeping in a paratroop compound in fear for his life. "He is hanging on by an eyelash," said a diplomat. The tumultuous Parliament is openly rebellious. One portly Deputy named Emile Zola drew cheers by reciting a long list of grievances against Adoula, punctuating each with "J'accuse...