Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City Garrisons. Urbanologist Wilson notes that most European countries have special national riot-control police to cope with such violent disorders as Detroit's-most notably France's Compa-gnies Republicaines de Securite, which usually lurk a block or two from the scene of the anticipated action, and move in if the local flics, who are pretty rough customers themselves, with their 6-ft. batons and leaded capes, prove unable to manage. Wilson suggests that the U.S. may soon find that it needs similar professional forces-possibly organized by the states, but more probably a federal force deployed...
...location near the Malacca Strait has long enabled Britain to police Far Eastern sea-lanes. (Singapore has neither the ships nor the money to use the base itself, and made it clear that the U.S. Navy would not be welcome.) Britain still plans to keep a 9,000-man garrison in beleaguered Hong Kong...
...truth seemed to be that the fighting had moved some 15 or 20 miles beyond Nsukka deeper into Biafra, and that the federal troops had simply moved through the city without bothering at first to garrison it. It was probably largely deserted anyway, since thousands of Nsukkans had fled the federal attack in trucks, taxis and mammy wagons, joined in the first retreat by large numbers of Biafra's inexperienced soldiers. The Biafran army consisted at secession of about 7,000 men, only 2,500 of them trained in the federal army-and those chiefly in supporting service roles...
...Meeting-House itself figured significantly in Negro history. From the middle of the nineteenth century on, it was an active center of abolitionism; from its pulpit spoke such famous Negroes as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman, and such eminent whites as William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. The building was also, from 1876 to 1936, the home of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has since moved to Warren Street in Roxbury...
...nicked Itō himself with a bullet in 1957. Finally, seven years ago, a Chamorro band caught his last companion climbing a coconut tree, and Itō decided he could go on no longer. Rather than face the jungle alone, he turned himself in at the U.S. garrison on the island...