Word: regiment
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Last week 250 Jamaican policemen and rookies of Britain's Royal Hampshire Regiment were sent out to reconnoiter the Red Hills. The soldiers carried rifles, but no bullets (Jamaican law forbids foreign troops to carry live ammunition without special permission). An unarmed patrol of British soldiers ran straight into an ambush laid by Reynold and his Brooklyn buddies, surrendered after the first burst of machine-gun fire. The Ras Tafarians then ordered the tommies to kneel, shot at them from short range. Two were killed, the other two wounded. The guerrillas commandeered a truck and headed deeper into...
When news of the killing reached Kingston, Premier Manley mobilized the island's forces. A force of 1,000 men-Jamaican cops, West India Regiment troops and British soldiers of the Hampshires-was sent into action with aircraft, police dogs mortar and rocket crews. Manley pleaded with Jamaican hill-dwellers who knew the fugitives' whereabouts to cooperate in tracking them down, but for fear of Ras Tafarian reprisal, the answer was silence...
...drafted a letter endorsing Kennedy in hopes of starting a liberal stampede to the Kennedy banner. Signers: Harvard's Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John K. Galbraith, Amherst's Henry Steele Commager and Washington Lawyer Joseph Rauh, onetime chairman of Americans for Democratic Action. In Manhattan, a regiment of eggheads closed the gap in their ranks with a Draft Stevenson Committee, signed a loyalty pledge supporting their favorite candidate. Among the signers: Poets Carl Sandburg and Archibald MacLeish. Authors John Steinbeck and John Hersey, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Critic John Mason Brown, Playwright-Producer George Abbott, Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein...
Earlier this year, Tibetan guerrillas became so successful in attacking Chinese truck convoys hauling materials for a string of Red Chinese airbases that in grim desperation the Chinese decided to throw in a regiment of Tibetan troops under Chinese officers. Although the men had been hand-picked and carefully indoctrinated, they promptly murdered their officers and joined the rebels...
...effort to stamp out British influence, South Africa's Afrikaner government has taken the Queen's face off the postage stamps, removed the wigs from the heads of Parliament officials, and renamed army regiments (the Midlands Regiment became the Gideon Scheepers). But no Nationalist will be happy until a republic is declared, removing once and for all the Crown's technical sovereignty...