Word: troops
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...limited wars. The Russians are now testing their first aircraft carrier in the Black Sea; another carrier is under construction. Both ships are designed to carry helicopters and serve as offshore bases for mobile invasion forces. The Russians are also building the world's largest troop-lifting helicopter, which can carry 200 men, and the biggest air transport, the Antonov 22, which accommodates 500 troops in battle dress. In addition, they now have 50,000 airborne "red berets," patterned after U.S. Green Berets, and 6,000 black-bereted "naval infantry," the Soviet equivalent of the U.S. Marines...
...recommendation of Belgian Foreign Minister Pierre Harmel, the ministers voted to use NATO's consultative machinery to coordinate Western contacts with the Eastern bloc. In this way, the ministers hope that their countries can use trade and cultural exchange with the East as leverage to work for mutual troop reduction...
...when a 62-boat Allied flotilla churning up the Rach Ruong Canal 65 miles southwest of Saigon was suddenly hit by intense fire. It carried a battalion of Vietnamese Marines and a battalion of the U.S. 9th Infantry, part of a probing arm of Operation Coronado 9. The Vietnamese troops were in the lead boats, and when rockets began to rip through the flotilla's armor plate, Major Pham Nha, the Vietnamese Marine battalion commander, made an instant decision to counterattack. "We're in an ambush and we are going in," ordered Nha, without waiting for artillery...
Like their ancient forebears at the siege of Troy, Greek soldiers slipped quietly aboard troop ships in a Cyprus harbor last week and sailed for home...
Earlier reports indicated attempts were being made to avert civil war. Behind the scene of troop movements and formal government changes, according to Washington reports, representatives of the King and leaders of the junta were conducting negotiations...