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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...
...Controls. The student delegation emerged from the presidential palace shouting, "We have won!" Seoul's streets erupted into a spontaneous expression of joy. Song's tank drivers were all but submerged under swarms of Seoul moppets, good-naturedly let the kids try out the controls. A small regiment of kindergartners marched up to the U.S. embassy chanting: "Thank you, America." A jubilant crowd decorated a statue of General Douglas MacArthur with a scroll that read: "Long life to him who saved us from Communism...
...Bolivia, President Hernan Siles Zuazo declared a complete political amnesty in preparation for the May 22 general elections, and a regiment of National Police took the occasion to revolt in La Paz, fought a futile, five-hour battle with loyal troops that left 16 killed, 106 wounded...
...regiment entrained for Florida, and Post caught his first glimpse of Teddy Roosevelt grinning from a boxcar door. T.R.'s uniform "looked as if he had slept in it-as it always did." For T.R.'s "personal press agent," famed Reporter Richard Harding Davis, Post conceived an immediate and lasting dislike: "Richard Harding Davis was busy conning his Social Register and keeping himself and his silk undies in perfect condition for the rigors of the coming campaign." In Florida, the men got an issue of .45-caliber training ammunition, which "could, properly directed, knock down...