Word: troops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went to Selma Monday night to in the march on Montgomery out of indignation." He said in an yesterday that the marchers are not turned back until they had about half a mile farther from than they had in Sunday's march. There was a solid line of state troop- one side of the road; the local and posse--known locally as --on the other," he continued. end of the lines were massed a hundred troopers blocking the and half a mile or so of vehicles up behind them...
...while the German sneers. When they are bogged down in the sand, he refuses to dig. When he begins to unbend and reaches under a seat to offer an injured man a first-aid kit, they clobber him unconscious. Shirtless and wearing German army caps, they join a German troop convoy and narrowly escape disaster when a French P.W. in the convoy recognizes one of the fugitives (France's singing idol, Charles Aznavour) as a countryman. Later, in one fine funny scene, the Frenchmen push the car out of a ditch with their captive at the wheel and gape...
Other fighter-type V/STOLs have already flown, but Ling-Temco-Vought's XC-142As are full-scale troop carriers, and they are remarkably agile. LTV's Director of Flight Operations John Konrad took his plane through a series of 360° turns only 20 ft. off the ground, then flew backward and forward with equal ease. Both pilots then reached for the one cockpit control that would have been out of place in a conventional plane: the lever that controls the two powerful screwjacks that can turn the wings until they point skyward or roll them back into...
...foreign and domestic policies. Among the proposals that one or all three of them have forwarded: an exit tag of $50 or $100 per person to discourage tourism abroad, direct controls on U.S. investments abroad, a further cutback in foreign aid and, if necessary, a sharp reduction of U.S. troop strength in Europe. These proposals have been hotly debated at a series of secret meetings in the White House. The State Department is dead set against foreign aid cuts or troop withdrawals, and the Commerce Department argues that restrictions on investment would destroy the U.S.'s reputation...
Mass Raids. At week's end Nasser's response was all that Sallal could have hoped for. Armor and artillery poured into Yemen's ports from a flotilla of ships; ammunition and troop reinforcements arrived by transport plane from Cairo. Once again Nasser's fighter planes made mass raids on royalist strongholds in the mountains. As they have for the past two years, the royalists endured the pounding. When it was over, they crawled from caves and foxholes to dance and sing...