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...Dervishes appeared to be ten or twelve deep at the thickest, a great grey mass gleaming with steel. They seemed to be wild with excitement, dancing about on their feet, shaking their spears up and down . . . I found myself surrounded. I fired . . . Three or four men from my troop were missing . . . Trumpets were sounded . . . Two squadrons were dismounted and in a few minutes their fire . . . compelled the Dervishes to retreat...
...mentally awake and morally straight"), they settled down to an afternoon of studying the silent signals used on hikes. What distinguished the meeting was the fact that few of the boys were likely to put into practice what they learned in the classroom: they were all members of a troop of physically and mentally handicapped Scouts...
Tailored Program. The Lubbock troop was organized in 1953, after the mother of a 13-year-old retarded boy went to the local Boy Scout office with the suggestion that scouting instruction might give her son and others like him the sense of belonging that they so desperately needed. A group of Texas Tech students who were members of Alpha Phi Omega, the national service fraternity of former Boy Scouts, agreed to take over the instruction of a group of handicapped youngsters. Lucian Thomas, a local jeweler who had been confined to a wheelchair for 16 years, sponsored the troop...
...years of his life, Lee needed Emma's sort of staunchness. Although these diaries do not contain his account of it, Lee had taken part in the brutal Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, when more than a hundred "Gentile" men, women and children were ruthlessly killed by a troop of Mormons. The Civil War interrupted the Federal Government's prosecution of the case, involving 36 suspects, and by the time the war was over, the Government was ready to compromise and accept one Mormon head in token payment. Brigham Young chose Lee. In 1870, Lee was excommunicated from...
Next door to Morocco, Algerian troublemakers, not to be outdone, persisted in shooting up the place. In Algiers an assassin fired three shots from his bicycle, disappeared leaving a police commissioner dead on the pavement. In Constantine, a rebel stamping ground in eastern Algeria, French troops battled guerrilla bandits, captured 77. Later, a French troop detachment and then an army supply truck were ambushed. The week's dead...