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They were a ragtag regiment. Some wore the camouflage suits of EOKA-B, the pro-Athens, anti-Makarios terrorist group. Others had on U.S. Army fatigues with American names still stenciled over pockets. All gave defiant V-for-victory signs as they straggled off to the front where they faced better-trained and equipped Turkish forces...
...suit instead of the traditional white tie and tails, planned to forsake the usual armada of limousines and motorcycles and arrive at the palace on foot. There he would review not the silver-helmeted Garde Républicaine but a unit of the First Army's Second Dragoon Regiment, in which he served as a tank gunner during World War II. When he later makes the ceremonial visit to the tomb of the unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe, the new President will walk up the Champs-Elysées instead of being driven there by limousine...
Going Over. In Lisbon's main square, the Praça do Comercio, the 7th Cavalry Regiment was called upon to crush the rebels. The first contingent, led by a lieutenant, responded by going over to the other side. The second also joined it after its commander, a lieutenant colonel, was arrested. The third, led by a brigadier general, fought for a few minutes, then broke ranks. By that time the rebels were firmly in control...
Premier Caetano sought refuge in the Lisbon Republican National Guard headquarters, and Portugal's 79-year-old President, Américo Thomaz, retreated to the barracks of a loyal regiment of lancers. Before surrendering, Caetano, in an effort to preserve the dignity of the state, asked if he could formally turn over the powers of his office to General António de Spínola, the spiritual leader of the rebellion, rather than let the government "fall in the streets." Spínola, who claimed to be aloof from the plotting, replied that he would have to consult...
...least likely people on earth-possibly excepting Joe Namath-who would want to start life anew in a skirt. A brilliant writer, celebrated and comfortably off, he was the apparently happy father of four children. Morris had been an intelligence officer in a crack British cavalry regiment and a glamorous globetrotting correspondent. In 1953, for instance, he climbed 20,000 feet up Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary's group and scooped the world for the Times of London...