Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before, the guerrillas had been squirreling away small weapons and food supplies inside the mosque. After the attack began, they concealed their dead and wounded in order to make the government think that the rebel casualties were light. When the two-week siege was finally over, the Saudi national guardsmen discovered the bodies of 300 guerrillas. Most of their faces had been deliberately burned by their surviving comrades to conceal the victims' identities. Some 160 of the intruders were captured, and will be tried on charges of defacing a holy place. The likely sentence: death by beheading. Saudi officials...
Seven hundred and fifty National Guardsmen, 200 highway patrolmen, 175 city policemen, tanks, and two helicopters guarded the funeral procession. The governor declared a state of emergency and issued an unlimited search warrant allowing officers to search at random and arrest anyone carrying a weapon...
...Neither Guardsmen nor marchers would comment on the heavy protection...
...Nicaragua, meanwhile, the three-month-old revolutionary government was also under fire. The new regime had released thousands of Somoza's loyal national guardsmen from custody and permitted many of his henchmen to take refuge in the embassies of countries that supported the Somoza dynasty. These unrepentant loyalists have attempted a counterrevolution, with political assassinations and minor acts of sabotage. Marxist Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez is determined to crush this threat, even if doing so belies the new regime's promise of a "generous revolution." Last week the decomposed body of Somoza Loyalist Pablo Emilio Salazar...
Gitmo is home to 1,850 sailors, 420 Marines, 16 Coast Guardsmen, 1,713 civilian workers and their 1,800 dependents. They live in drab government housing that is clustered among quonset huts and shabby machine shops, making Gitmo look much like military bases on the mainland. Still, the fact that no one can go beyond the 17.6-mile chainlink fence that surrounds the base ensures that life at Guantanamo Bay is different. There is no direct contact with Cubans off the base. All communications with Havana must be routed through channels on the mainland. One exception is maintenance...