Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Infantry Regiment, stationed in Buenos Aires' suburbs, to storm the palace. First came a scout, a second lieutenant in steel-helmeted battle dress, who kicked open a back-door service entrance-startling a dozing plainclothes cop and a reporter...
Jones's title refers to the war as it was fought by "amateur soldiers" of a Welsh regiment-"how glad we thought we were to step outside its brackets at the end of '18." In the regiment is Private John Ball, who goes off to France, endures six rainy months in the trenches, then finds combat ended for him with a bullet in the thigh...
After Philip left, the protests flared into a general strike. When panicky police met some 10,000 demonstrators with tear gas and bullets, Georgetown blacks set fire to Indian-owned shops. Finally 150 troops of the Royal Hampshire Regiment drove off the rioters at bayonet point. But the fires destroyed almost 20% of the city...
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...