Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ionesco's man-turned-rhinoceros, and flanked by two beetling aides,* Zorin laid out the Soviet demands in his curious reedy tenor: 1) arrest Katanga's Moise Tshombe and Congolese Army Major General Joseph Mobutu, and put them on trial; 2) dissolve all Tshombe and Mobutu troop units and force all Belgians out of the Congo; 3) pull the U.N. force out of the Congo within a month...
...increase the airlift capability. Defense will add 53 troop-transport planes to its purchasing program. Thirty of these planes will be Boeing C-135 jets (military version of the 707). Deliveries at the rate of two per month will begin in June. The remaining 23 planes will be Lockheed null turboprops, which will be turned out at a fast eight per month, beginning in July. In all, the aim is to outfit the military with long-range (4,000 miles plus) craft with a 25-ton payload that can operate on relatively short, 6,000-ft. runways...
...Manhattan, the U.N.'s Hammarskjold sent cable after cable pleading for troop contributions from Mexico, Iraq, Iran and India, but got solid pledges from nobody. The new U.N. Congo Commander, Ireland's Lieut. General Sean McKeown, warned that the present 20,000-man force was the "bare minimum requirement" to prevent civil war. At week's end Hammarskjold gloomily informed the Security Council that unless replacement troops were forthcoming, he might have to propose "liquidation of the force, and in consequence, the entire United Nations Congo operation...
...there was no sign of large-scale troop intervention-though Boun Oum's constantly inventive Information Minister claimed the capture of thousands of chopsticks, adding darkly that "Laotians don't use chopsticks." On their own, the Laotians were getting little fighting done. Rebel Captain Kong Le still sat astride the central Plaine des Jarres, on the receiving end of a steady Soviet airlift of supplies from North Viet Nam. He concentrated on training his five-battalion force, made up of paratroops, villagers and recruits from the army posts he has captured. He claimed to be only a "neutralist...
...Charlie Stark, and the two men could hardly be more different. Charlie's family is sound, conventional, well to do. He has been turned down for combat duty and has in turn rejected his chance at a commission; instead, he was drafted for service on a troop transport. On the Pendleton, Raditzer spots him at once as a decent man who is above abuse, a man to tie to for protection. Raditzer glories in his whining autobiography-born illegitimate, raised in an orphanage, never knew a decent woman, never had a chance. He ducks his sea duty and Charlie...