Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Discontent with Mossadeq's regime was accumulating. The mullah Bebamani spouted influential warnings of a communist subversion and Teymur Bakhtiar, chief of the garrison in Kermanshah, indicated he was ready to move on Tehran in aid of the Shah. Ordinary people were also influenced against Mossadeq by the Tudeh (Communist) Party's desecration of Shah Riza's tomb on August...
Three years after the rebellion was suppressed, the major towns of Baluchistan are still garrisoned with 30,000 Pakistani troops, mostly drawn from the populous eastern provinces of Punjab and Sind. At least 70% of the local policemen in the province are also outsiders. One Western diplomat in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad describes Baluch resentment against central government intrusion as "tremendous. For the Baluch there is no qualitative difference between the Punjabis and the army of Alexander the Great. They're both occupying powers." In the garrison town of Khuzdar, where a third of the 15,000 population...
Correspondents in southern Nicaragua reported occasional firing near the outpost of Penas Blancas on the Costa Rican border. Guerrillas fought a nine-hour battle with the national guard garrison there Sunday before withdrawing into Costa Rica...
...completely changed. The whites will be back by August or September." Perhaps so. But those who have remained are demanding a special payment of $1,000 a month in "danger money," the right to bear private arms, guarantees of evacuation "on demand" and, more significantly, a foreign military garrison. The expatriates have no confidence in the ability of the Zaïrian army to ward off another rebel attack and no faith in the proposed pan-African force to ward off the marauding Zaïrian army...
...media coverage will be extensive. We will have to show the world how strongly Americans object to nuclear power," Garrison said...