Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saturday, two B-26 light bombers roared in from the sea toward Havana, dropped to low level and started their bomb runs. One plane worked over Castro's Air Force Base at San Antonio de los Baños, 20 miles southwest of the capital. The other attacked Havana's Camp Liberty, Castro's main military headquarters. Darting through a curtain of antiaircraft fire, the B-26 swept over the camp toggling bombs, banked around for a rocket attack, then finished off by a strafing run with eight .50-cal. machine guns. As smoke from exploding ammo...
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...troubled Portuguese African colony of Angola, 150 settlers have been slaughtered in the past fortnight in a rash of terrorist raids led by Angola blacks who live near the Congolese border. Already Portuguese Dictator Antonio Salazar's forces have evacuated 3,500 terrified whites from northern Angola. Thirty thousand Portuguese soldiers crash about in pelting rainstorms, hunting the sizable terrorist bands thought to be still at large...
...year 1961 was supposed to be "The Year of Education" in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Last week the slogan was enlarged. It is now also "The Year of the Firing Squad." The announcement was made by Cuba's Agrarian Reform Chief Antonio Núñez Jiménez in a speech to a crowd of gun-toting militiamen. Added the Reformer: "We will erect the most formidable execution wall in the history of humanity...
...liner, carrying 950 passengers and crewmen, was seized as a protest against the Portuguese dictatorship of Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, according to a message radioed by Galvao to newspapers all over the world. It was "a political action foreseen in the international maritime laws," Galvao declared. This is his fourth attempt to overthrow Premier Salazar's government...