Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the mutiny, troop movements were confined almost entirely to the town proper and to the African business quarters of Magomeni and Kariakoo (named for the German Carrier Corps stationed there in 1918). The large European and African suburbs to the north and south of the town were not entered. The first indication I had of the trouble was about 8 a.m. when, upon reaching the Tanganyikan school where I teach, I found classes dismissed and the headmistress, a close friend of Nyerere's, in tears...
...SHILLELAGH is a stubby little (about 50 Ibs.; 43 in.) missile launched from an armored vehicle-usually a tank. Its microbeam-guidance system is so accurate that Shillelagh can destroy a tank, pillbox or troop concentration several miles away. Giving Shillelagh an added knockdown punch is its launching platform, the new General Sheridan tanklike armored vehicle. This is a speedy battlefield bantamweight (it weighs only 16 tons, compared with 50 tons for most U.S. tanks) that scoots along at 39 m.p.h. on the ground; when necessary it can dive into water and "swim" at 4 m.p.h. More important: the Sheridan...
...such thing as CAFIC. Indeed, it turned out that Hong Kong's P.O. Box 14940 was simply a mail drop for Communist Chinese spies. Though the newspapers contained no military secrets, Peking's intelligence agents apparently read them avidly for hints of U.S. army morale, announcements of troop movements, maneuvers and other tidbits that might fit into a larger mosaic of U.S. military effectiveness...
Fool & School. Menotti moves through music like a troop ship avoiding U-boats-back and forth, in and out. He darts from failure (Labyrinth) to triumph (The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi) with great agility, but nothing he has written since 1955 can approach the genius of The Saint of Bleecker Street or even The Consul. Aside from one or two pleasant arias and one superb septet, there is very little in the Savage that suggests its composer's grand reputation. The music could have been written any time after 1850, and the libretto could have been improved...
Each time the troubled Congo settles into something resembling normality, a new revolt shatters its fragile unity. Last week the government rushed off troop reinforcements to Kwilu province, a rich agricultural area 250 miles east of Leopoldville, where some 500 Communist-supplied tribal guerrillas were on the rampage. The leftist insurgents controlled about one-third of the territory, had burned and looted a palm-oil plantation, administration buildings and schools. A curfew was imposed on the panic-stricken provincial capital of Kikwit, and the families of four U.S. missionaries were hastily evacuated from their posts, 22 miles from the city...