Word: riflemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PANAMA, Nov. 3--American Army riflemen with bayonets bristling took command at the Panama Canal Zone border today after anti-U.S. Panamanians tore up an American Embassy flag, and fought for hours with U.S. canal police...
...Drilling bull's-eyes with methodic precision, the U.S. Army's Blue riflemen's team from Fort Benning, Ga. won 14 out of 24 matches, set a national record of 1.107 points out of a possible 1,200 with the M-1 service rifle at distances of 600, 500, 300 and 200 yds., routed Marine, Navy and civilian teams to capture the Infantry Trophy at Camp Perry, Ohio...
...block put up here, a prison stormed there, a European game warden and a forest ranger attacked elsewhere. Against the clubs, stones and pan gas of the Africans, the government had Bren guns, Sten guns, spotter planes-even Vampire jets-plus the services of the King's African Riflemen, the Rhodesia African Rifles, the Royal Rhodesia Regiment, Southern Rhodesia's South African Police, the Royal Rhodesian Air Force, the Tanganyika police, the Nyasaland police, and assorted white vigilante "special constables" from Southern Rhodesia. Gradually the death toll climbed to 39, all Africans, and 71 were injured...
...Simon led the riflemen to a 1393 to 1289 victory over St. Michael's with 284. Team captain Lance Fair followed with 283. Dick Murphy shot 280 out of 300, ahead of Dave Mote with 274 and Bill Garrison with...
Last week a foursome at Selangor's ninth hole was surprised to see a squad of riflemen in the brush beside the fairway, muttered something about their ruining the rough. As the golfers prepared to tee off, there was a burst of rifle fire. The soldiers had come upon a long-sought hideout of the Ampang gang, a Communist military unit which once spread terror and death through Kuala Lumpur. In a brief fight three terrorists were killed. "It's shockin'," said a bald-headed British major. "I might have sliced one into the beggars' camp...