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Standing 5 ft. 5 in. in his jungle boots. Lawson, 37, is a fair-haired, gentle-voiced graduate of Sandhurst. Recently he was temporarily transferred from the First Royal Tank Regiment serving in West Germany to the Nigerian army (trained by British officers). In December he volunteered for a three-month tour of duty with U.N. forces in the Congo. No sooner did Lawson arrive than his legend began to sprout...
When he turns out in uniform of the day for his regular chores, Corporal John Uelses (pronounced Yule-cess), U.S.M.C., is a run-of-the-regiment marine. When he strips to his skivvies and turns out for a track meet, the dark, handsome, Berlinborn pole vaulter is the pride of the corps. Last month in Washington, he hoisted himself 15 ft. 10¼ in. and broke Don Bragg's world indoor record. Fortnight ago in Manhattan, he became the first pole vaulter in history to clear 16 ft. (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week Uelses issued an open challenge...
Back to Silver Tail. This time Father Hickey was past placating; he followed the customary course for desperate, rich parents, and bought his son a cadet's place with the East India Company. William was delighted; not knowing which regiment he would serve with, he bought one uniform of each, and paraded them alternately in the weeks before his departure. But when he got to Madras, he found the humours of the place unhealthy and climbed back aboard the same boat that had brought him. In London again, he misbehaved as before, and was packed off again, this time...
...were going to surrender. Curtly the general answered, "No!" Weeping, Lucienne Salan tied a silk scarf about her husband's neck in a farewell gesture. Generals Challe and Zeller returned to France as prisoners; Generals Salan and Jouhaud, with some 100 deserters from the ist Foreign Legion Paratroop Regiment, disappeared into the underground...
After this brainwashing in reverse, the regiment is sent into a remote village to track down an elusive F.L.N. band, and promptly loses two men in an ambush. In reprisal, the paras cut the throats of 27 Moslem villagers who had nothing to do with the affair. It is brutal, but in "Communist" terms it works, since the natives are now too frightened to help the guerrillas. The band is soon cornered and wiped...