Word: redoubt
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...second week in a row, American and Australian troops probed the Red redoubt of Zone D, but this time the Communists did not fade back into the jungle. After B-52 bombers from Guam had softened the zone with two bomb runs, the Reds made a stand in a fortified village, catching a company of U.S. paratroopers under crossfire with two machine guns. The Americans took out one gun with rifle grenades, then charged the second. The Reds broke and ran, dragging bodies with them through their escape tunnels. "There was blood all over that trench," said an American first...
...Communist intent was clearly to capture Quangngai, the provisional capital. And well they might have-except for a hot dose of U.S. airpower. The handful of government reserves held tight in Quangngai as a Red barrage from mortars, recoilless rifles and howitzers thundered against the Bagia redoubt. Reports from a detachment of montagnard mercenaries, who bravely scouted the area on bicycles, showed that the Viet Cong were less than a mile from the town. In the dark before dawn, monsoon clouds hung wet and heavy over Quangngai, but there was just enough room for a flight of C-123 "flareships...
This would never do. Summarily, Nkrumah fired the chief justice who had presided, declared the verdict void and ordered the five retried. With a new, and presumably wiser, judge on the bench, the retrial was held at Christiansborg Castle, the massive, 300-year-old redoubt that the Redeemer some times uses as executive headquarters. This time none of the five had a lawyer-perhaps understandable in view of the fact that the chief counsel for Adamafio and Adjei during the first trial had himself since been jailed. At one point Adamafio announced with resignation that he had thought over...
...translates as "Peaceful House") was a testimonial to Viet Cong cunning. Government paratroopers discovered one of their adversaries' main camps. Circular in shape, it was crisscrossed with trenches camouflaged by fast-growing yam plants and running for hundreds of yards among concealed barracks roofed with thatch. Below the redoubt were huge, man-made caverns 60 feet underground, honeycombed with tunnels. At one point, eight tunnels converged into a large subterranean room that was complete with tables, chairs and Viet Cong flags...
Expelled Greeks. As Makarios spoke, his Greek Cypriot forces were building up their strength in the Kokkina area for what the U.N. feared might be a second strike against the small Turkish Cypriot redoubt, where refugees from other villages huddled in caves. Such a step would certainly provoke another wave of Turkish retaliation from the mainland; in fact, many expect the Turks to attack again. In Thimayya's opinion, Turkey may "bomb Cyprus to save its people from starvation and make Makarios lift the blockade." In the Turkish capital Premier Ismet Inönü was desperately trying...