Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blinking Lights. Long before dawn one moonless morning, an advance patrol of seven heavily armed commandos, their faces blackened with burnt cork, landed on a rocky beach north of Baraka. Soon their signal lights began blinking the all-clear, and a patrol boat churned in with the first assault wave of ten men. Before they had waded all the way ashore, however, a cross fire of tracers arced down at them from machine-gun nests in the bluff beyond, forcing the mercenaries to take cover behind their boat...
...deserted. Luckily for the mercenaries, the Simbas had been called elsewhere. Down the road, the chatter of a Russian banana gun joined the machine guns firing at the beach. The commando lieutenant sent a patrol to silence it, then set fire to a cluster of thatched huts as a signal to Hoare to send more men. The huts exploded: the rebels had hidden grenades and ammunition under their roofs...
...worked for the Department twenty years before is given refresher courses in radio operations and self-defense. But the equipment is obsolete, and the agent's wartime skills have not improved. From the beginning his capture seems certain, and the operation may--it is a point only hinted at--signal the Department's demise...
...Public men," said the judge, "are public property." In a signal victory for the U.S. press, Judge Gordon found the defendants not guilty of actual malice, since they merely transmitted what they believed to be accurate news. He thereupon dismissed the case "with prejudice," meaning that Walker cannot refile a similar suit against the Louisville defendants...
...forced to marry the store clerk who seduced her, has a stillborn child. While Andrea is brooding about that misfortune his train runs down a suicide. Afterward, the engineer takes a few drinks to steady himself, narrowly averts a worse disaster when he rams his locomotive through a stop signal. Demoted to a yard job that destroys the fag end of his pride, Andrea scabs during a strike, estranging himself from friends and family. Later, he suffers a heart attack and lives just long enough to mend the ties that bind, in a gay, tearful Christmas reunion at home...