Word: paratroops
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...Shah's attention to his armed forces has paid off. In the current crisis, the loyalty of his officers is unquestioned. The army's highly trained paratroop units, which include large numbers of Turks, Kurds and Baluchis, from provinces where the Shah is considered a father figure, have not hesitated to fire into unruly crowds when ordered to do so. Explained one paratroop captain to TIME Correspondent Brelis last week: "You can think of us having the same loyalty to the Shah that American officers have to the President of the U.S. Maybe if our recruits came...
...attend. While Smith was promoting the cause of his internal settlement in Houston, Texas, the Rhodesian armed forces carried out a devastating series of raids on military bases of Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) deep inside Zambia. In all, Salisbury claimed, its air and paratroop forces hit 12 different ZAPU camps and killed 1,500 guerrillas...
...file his reports to TIME'S editors in New York, McWhirter was forced to use his hotel phone in the beleaguered capital of Kinshasa. Within a week, he made five trips over the 1,000 miles of grassland between Kinshasa and Kolwezi by hitching plane rides on paratroop convoys, with U.S. cargo shipments, and once on a Belgian 727 converted to a refugee carrier...
...Second Foreign Parachute Regiment) listened in silence to radio newscasts from Zaire. There was no sign of mourning when Foreign Legion casualties from their unit were announced, even though punishment squads of delinquent recruits were already digging graves in a military cemetery near the legion's paratroop base. "If they get you, they get you," said a veteran. "One legionnaire is worth 20 of the opposition...
...battle-hungry members of the world's most-storied fighting unit, last week's 650-paratroop rescue mission in Shaba represented a rare chance to relive a glorious and bloodied past. Not since 1970, when a group of commandos put down a modest rebellion in the African Republic of Chad, had the Foreign Legion seen action in the field. Nowadays, most legionnaires spend their time on such mundane tasks as putting out forest fires in Corsica, constructing roads in French Guiana and guarding French nuclear testing sites in Tahiti...