Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar to me at the ages of six and seven, after which I suspended it and did not resume it till I was 24." This startling statement he leaves unexplained. No less tantalizing is his claim to inside knowledge of why British General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon and his besieged garrison were overwhelmed at Khartoum in 1885: "All the high endeavour . . . miscarried through the petty episode of Lord Charles Beresford's developing a boil on the bottom at the critical moment." At this critical moment in his anecdote, Jones drops the laconic footnote, "Private information," and rushes...
...that were pouring down, sweeping away airstrips and flooding the valleys, Communist-led Black Thai tribesmen, trained and equipped in North Viet Nam, last month invaded the remote northern Laotian provinces of Phongsaly and Samneua. Slipping expertly through the suffocating jungle, the Red guerrillas surprised one small Laotian army garrison after another, inflicted 300 casualties on government forces and captured several villages lying astride the classic invasion route into Laos from the battle-renowned village of Dienbienphu...
...only authority is the cocky rebel army. "There is no trouble here, señor," said Lieut. Ramón Pérez, 32, commander of a tiny highway garrison called El Cobre, rousing himself from his afternoon siesta. Pérez' men had manned a .30-cal. machine gun on the guardhouse roof, and they stopped and searched all passing trucks. "If anybody we stop does not have identification-prisoner!" grinned Pérez. Off duty, the bearded, long-haired soldiers lounge about reading the leftist official army organ. Olive Green. Slogan: "The army is the people...
...month, former Dictator Juan Peron, exiled in the Dominican Republic, published what he said was a pre-election pact between himself and Frondizi. Thus provoked, the plotters moved up the date. At the signal-to be given by Rear Admiral Arturo Rial-the traditionally anti-Peronist Córdoba garrison would rise, and warships from the Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano bases would steam along the River Plate and blockade Buenos Aires. It was roughly the same plan that toppled Peron in 1955-Fatal Flaw. But the plan had a paradoxical flaw: too many other officers outside the plot were...
...hatred of a young army recruit for his martinet captain in the dusty Pacific town garrison of Portoviejo caused the rioting that put Ecuador under martial law and killed at least 37 people...