Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow young Zhukov became a member of the revolutionary committee of his old unit. This unit was soon incorporated in a cavalry regiment, commanded by ex-Cavalry Sergeant Semyon Timoshenko, which became part of a Red cavalry army led by Semyon Budenny, an ex-Cossack. The war unfolded on a 3,000-mile perimeter around central Russia. The Red cavalrymen fought as irregular shock troops, now galloping 400 miles to strike Poland's Pilsudski, now driving south at the White forces under General Denikin, finally pinning White General Piotr Wrangel in the Prekop isthmus and bringing...
Because other ex-Czarist officers had been going over to the Whites, often with their troops, the Bolsheviks in 1918 appointed commissars to every Red army unit: stone-hard Communists whose job it was to make men and officers accept "the spirit of revolutionary discipline," or else. Said Realist Trotsky: "An army cannot be built without reprisals. Masses of men cannot be led to death unless the army command has the death penalty in its arsenal." Thus began the pernicious commissar system which years later was to bring the army, and Soviet Russia itself, almost to destruction...
Unless a new crisis develops, the Queen's Own will probably be the last major Canadian army unit to serve in Korea. A 200-man field ambulance unit and the 900-man crew of the destroyer Sioux are the only Canadians left there of some 33,100* who served during and after the war. Canada is now negotiating with other Commonwealth countries and with the U.S. to withdraw all Canadian forces from the Far East. A Black Watch battalion originally scheduled to replace the homecoming Queen's Own got last-minute orders not to embark. The informal explanation...
...Close the Door. Since this was only a rehearsal, the convoys jostled regular traffic on the highway to Beaumont, made generally good time. With emergency generators and police floodlights, the first surgical unit in Beaumont was at its operating table with scalpels poised by 11:45. Not until then had Dr. Don Butler allowed a case to leave the sorting center. Confusion, he figured, should not be allowed to spread to the emergency surgeries. As he summed it up: "If they're dying out there and you're not ready to begin operating, you just have to close...
Even if the citizens of Cambridge were to participate in the test, Burke said he doubted whether the city Civil Defense unit would be prepared to evacuate people from the city. "We have no definite idea of how to remove children out of school buildings speedily in event of a raid," Burke said, but made no specific reference to Harvard...