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...acting commander, Brazil's tiny Major General Carlos Flores Paiva Chaves boomed, "Soyez les bien-venus!" The French welcome was appropriate, for it was addressed to men of Canada's Royal 22nd Regiment, which is about 98% French-speaking. Canada's advance party took off from Ontario while the Security Council was still debating the formation of the United Nations peace-keeping force in Cyprus-which will unfortunately be known as U.N.F.I.C.Y.P.-and it landed in Nicosia far ahead of contingents also due from Brazil, Sweden, Ireland, Austria and Finland. There was reason to hurry, because...
...Nyerere's experience. He sent police to secure the Owen Falls dam and thus cut the main highway from Jinja to Kampala. Then, swallowing his pride, the man who had often ranted against "colonialists" and "imperialists" called for British aid. Within the hour, 450 troops from the Staffordshire Regiment and the Scots Guards were winging in from Kenya. As they took positions at the Entebbe airport and in the capital, Obote agreed to discuss the mutineers' demands, and order was restored...
...Gaulle has called him "the clown in a cassock." But mustard-making Dijon loves him. The city has happily elected him mayor and Deputy to Parliament for 18 years. Last week, on his 88th birthday, his desk was piled high with congratulatory messages. The band of the local infantry regiment turned up at town hall to serenade him with Burgundian drinking songs, and everyone joined in a toast-a kir, of course...
Maps v. Victory. Fortnight ago, 35 miles northwest of Saigon, a 400-man battalion of South Vietnamese Rangers found itself pinned down on a scrub-smothered river bank by 800 wellarmed, dug-in guerrillas. U.S. advisers suddenly saw a rare chance: here was a Communist regiment that was prepared to stand and fight the set-piece battle that Vietnamese generals claimed they so ardently desired. If the Reds would only stay in one place, they could easily be surrounded...
...unengaged with the enemy. But when called upon to rush them in, Vietnamese staff officers chain-smoked the afternoon away engrossed in their maps, deaf to American pleas. The pinned-down Rangers had no alternative but to retreat across the river under cover of darkness. The Viet Cong regiment, which might well have been annihilated, escaped, leaving behind five captured Rangers tied by their feet to trees with their heads hacked...