Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town. In Newton's Military Park, the municipal bandsmen sat solemn and proud in high-buttoned navy-blue tunics, and filled the summer night with sound. The music may not have satisfied John Philip Sousa, but it was loud enough to compete with the moaning of the evening train. Always, it attracted more than a thousand spectators...
When I boarded the train in Dresden for my return to Berlin, some 20 jack-booted railway police were busy checking everybody's passports and papers. Passports were checked six times between Dresden and Berlin...
Long Suffering. Despite nearly ten years in French prisons, Bourguiba has been a devoted friend of France, and the West has long considered him the Arab world's most reasonable statesman. He allowed F.L.N. troops to quarter and train in Tunisia, but to their leaders he repeatedly counseled moderation and faith in General de Gaulle. It was Bourguiba who most notably, though unsuccessfully, urged the F.L.N. to accept the French ceasefire. But the Bizerte base was an irritant, particularly as the French no longer considered it essential, and have been gradually reducing its garrison...
...Left. In the atomic age, war to them seems senseless for any cause-even their own freedom-as is evidenced by their slogan, "I'd rather be Red than dead." Inevitably too, anti-German prejudice persists. In Swansea fortnight ago, 300 marchers demonstrated against the NATO plan to train West German Panzer units in Wales this fall. The real point-that the defense of Berlin is ultimately the defense of Britain-is only now beginning to dawn on the mass of Britons enjoying the summer...
...weeks the Red guerrillas, known as the Viet Cong, had steered clear of large-scale action, choosing instead to dart out in small bands on minor missions of sabotage and murder. U.S. military advisers, rushed to South Viet Nam after the debacle in Laos, used the lull to train government troops in special new mobile tactics. Dozens of U.S. "Special Forces" operatives joined army units to demonstrate night operations, sneak attacks, better use of landing craft in the canals of the Mekong delta. Fortnight ago, reports filtered in that big Communist groups were moving south from Cambodia toward the marshes...