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Stop the Ship. Water Police Sergeant Ernst Mangold, a former U-boat skipper, was first into action. His nippy little launch slid alongside the Raman. "Halt," ordered Mangold, but the Raman plowed on. The cops fired a volley of Very flares and turned their searchlight on the tanker's bridge. Still no response from the Raman. Mangold and his men swarmed up the Raman's sides, only to be deluged by an avalanche of cold water from the tanker's sea hoses. Sergeant Mangold finally made it aboard and stomped to the tanker's bridge...
...Denmark got a volley of publicity when the press latched on to a letter telling the folks...
...could take any mass of writers and get one good poem, from children' jumping-rope rhymes to cerebral stuff. We got five hundred a week and only three of us to edit them . . . We had a sense that something great was going to happen, week after week, expecting a volley of applause . . . nothing would happen...
...that MacArthur "wanted to involve us in an all-out war in the Far East." For more than 24 hours after this shot zinged off in the old soldier's direction, there was nothing but silence. Then, having laid his guns carefully, MacArthur sent back a whole volley. Through his aide, Major General Courtney Whitney, he issued a statement which began by calling the Truman remark "inaccurate and misleading." MacArthur went on: "My purpose and desire was not to extend the war but only to end it. At that time, this could have been accomplished with only a fraction...
...defiance of camp rules. The prisoners formed ranks on top of a high terrace. Guards at the foot of the steep incline all around ordered them to break it up, but their only answer was a shower of stones. A brisk wind made tear gas useless. A warning volley of shots had no effect. Three waves of taunting and jeering prisoners, with arms locked, bore down steadily on the guards. Lieut. Colonel George Miller, island commander, ordered his guards to lower the muzzles of their guns and fire. In the brief battle that followed, 82 prisoners were killed, 120 were...