Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another. Violence or no, Mauritius faces hard times. Britain's sugar subsidy runs out in 1970. By then, Prime Minister Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam of the Hindu-backed Independence Party hopes to diversify the economy and lure new foreign investment. To avert violence, Britain will also help train and equip Mauritius' police and armed forces. As added protection, a company of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry will remain on the island as long as they are needed. That could be for some time...
Under the 1966 contract, the Army agreed to staff and equip a Department of Military Science at Harvard, which would provide the required Army ROTC courses at no direct expense to the University or its students...
...tagon has established a unique logistics system that will supply Guard units with specialized riot gear not normally issued through regular channels. Protective body armor, bullhorns, search lights and portable tear gas dispensers have been stockpiled at scattered secret depots throughout the nation. Enough radio sets to equip two infantry divisions have been pre-positioned on the East and West coasts to cut down delivery time to the scene of a disturbance; military planning packets (including maps, transportation and troop housing data) are being prepared for cities where rioting may occur...
Fever Swamps. Buckley can be effectively pithy. When the British Labor government decided to equip police with breathometers to check drivers for drunkenness, he commented: "People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government." Or he can set sail on splendid seas of invective. "The Bishop of Woolwich, who is England's Bishop Pike only more so, announced recently from the pulpit of Canterbury Cathedral that he had recently traveled to America and there found that 'every Christian I met' was opposed...
...instance, perform both as a backup to the nation's regular armed forces and as a kind of superstate police force-when both jobs require sophisticated skills and equipment undreamed of even a decade ago? To equip both Guard and Reserve units for modern battlefield conditions would cost no less than $10 billion. Should Guard units be brought more tightly under federal control, so that officers, who now are often deeply involved in state politics, have to meet uniform standards of competence? So far, Congress has resisted any suggestion that it look into these and other Guard problems...