Word: regimental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Portugal, a somewhat amateurish band of conspirators tried to unseat Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. At 2 a.m. New Year's Day, as heavy winds and rain lashed the wheatfields around Beja, 85 miles southeast of Lisbon, a sentry at the 3rd Infantry Regiment barracks was roused by the approach of four automobiles. Recognizing three of his own regimental officers, he waved the cars inside the gate. But the cars also carried a score of workers from Lisbon's suburb of Almada, and such sworn foes of the Salazar regime as ex-Army Captain João Varela Gomes...
...your article, "How Berlin Got Behind the Curtain" [Sept. 29]: as the commander of the regiment that established the first successful bridgehead across the Elbe River, I would like to make a few comments...
Army training methods are excellent. At Fort Jackson, S.C., last week, Company B, 2nd Battalion, ist Training Regiment fidgeted in new, stiff fatigues and listened to Sergeant Delma Stanfill bark out the basic facts about a gas mask. At the end of the drill, after they had practiced donning the mask, another sergeant tested them by dropping smoke and tear gas grenades near by. About 20 of the basic trainees bolted in terror for the woods. In the past, trainees have cried for their mothers. But, after this first day of panic, most of the trainees complete the tough, eight...
Sukarno may be a bumbling administrator, but he is an expert on survival. With the help of one crack but overworked regiment of paratroopers, he quickly routed the Sumatran rebels in half a dozen brief and mostly bloodless battles, and drove the remnants into the hills. In the other islands, Sukarno sent troops against diehard colonels and won submission from pliable ones by giving them a free hand in running their areas once they had given him their allegiance. He also quietly redressed many of the economic grievances that had spurred the revolt...
...architect." A major attraction of the house is the huge kitchen, which might have been lifted out of the pages of Gone With the Wind; it has no chrome or eye-level ovens, but an old gas stove large enough to have turned out food for a whole regiment of McClellan's troops. Actually, the kitchen does not get as much use as it might; because the press of his duties so often makes him miss dinner at home. Bobby Kennedy once a week herds Ethel and the children to a nearby Howard Johnson's for a family...