Word: troops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dawn broke over a formidable invasion fleet steaming slowly off the coast. Two cruisers and five destroyers turned broadside to begin the softening-up bombardment of the shore line in the heaviest concentration of naval gunfire since the Korean War, while the amphibious assault boats swarmed in. Waves of troop-packed helicopters rose from the deck of the carrier Okinawa. The amphibious troops and their tanks, tractors and guns came ashore, meeting with little resistance. For the heliborne assault forces, it was another story...
...largely controlled by the Communist Pathet Lao under Hanoi's tutelage, but Royal Laotian patrols infiltrate to report on trail traffic. From South Viet Nam come reconnaissance patrols of Vietnamese, Montagnard and Nung tribesmen, or of U.S. Special Forces led by local guides. Occasionally, when a Communist troop concentration is firmly fixed, South Vietnamese units as large as a company slip across for a swift, unpublicized strike. But the main job of harassment is carried out by the Royal Laotian Air Force's 25-odd prop-driven T-28 fighter-bombers and U.S. jets out of Thailand, which...
...gallop past" by the King's Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery -in which three score plumed cavalry men rattle past at full gallop, swords raised, hooves beating and gun carriages thundering behind - is so intricate and dangerous that it is rarely used even for visiting royalty. Last week Queen Elizabeth, who had never seen the ceremony herself, ordered it performed to mark the state visit of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, the somber and bearded monarch who has emerged as leader of the moderate forces op posing the pan-Arabism of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...
Feisal came to Britain for more than a bit of royal pomp. He fears that when the British protectorate of Aden gets its independence next year, Nasser's followers will swallow it up once British troops pull out, thus giving his enemy another stronghold on Saudi Arabia's flank. In discussions continuing through this week, he will try to persuade Prime Minister Harold Wilson to postpone Britain's troop withdrawal-perhaps indefinitely...
...size and speed.* Within six months, work was underway on her even bigger sister ship, the 83,000-ton Queen Elizabeth, whose maiden trip to New York in 1940, coming as it did after the outbreak of World War II, was shrouded in secrecy. The Queens served as troop ships throughout the war, eluding German submarines and planes to carry as many as 15,000 jam-packed G.l.s on a single voyage...