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...fighting in southern and western Haiti-two groups, with about 80 men, calling themselves the "Haitian Revolutionary Armed Forces" and another independent band of 100. Since the first skirmishes eight weeks ago, the rebels have killed at least 80 Duvalier militiamen, have shot one of Duvalier's three AT6 patrol planes out of the sky, and have blown up roads, bridges and trucks. One night, they reportedly raided and looted an armory 38 miles southeast of Port-au-Prince, then two days later sacked another military post 20 miles away. Haitians crossing over into the neighboring Dominican Republic...
...east the army fared much worse. There, Rebel Captain Kong Le shot down one of the government's AT6 trainers (whereupon the U.S. sent in two more, raising the royal air force to a total of five planes). Kong Le also had artillery, supplied him by Russian airlift. He advanced on the village of Ta Vieng on the Nam Nhiep River. The government troops prudently retreated, carrying out what the officer in charge called his "coiled-spring tactic." Kong Le took the village and moved on south toward Pak-sane, slowly bulldozing a road ahead...
Last fortnight, after an unidentified plane buzzed his mosquito-bitten border towns, the dictator ordered his armed AT6 trainers to patrol the Costa Rican border, to shoot down intruders on sight. "I will permit no more violations of the national territory," he thundered. Just in case the Legion should make Honduras the road to Nicaragua, Tacho deployed 500 National Guardsmen along his northern frontier, sent 200 right into Honduras to help his friend Carias...
Ready for War. Tacho had a shotgun propped behind his desk. He intended to be prepared on all fronts. Last week his flyers took delivery in Miami of AT6 trainer planes bought by the dictator after the U.S. recognized Nicaragua last May. In the Dominican Republic, the eastern end of the Caribbean dictators' axis, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's mechanics were busy scraping the Dominican insignia off three P-38s. They were ticketed for Nicaragua, where Tacho had pilots waiting to fly them...
...Arizona few weeks ago handsome, 21-year-old 2nd Lieut. Howard Stittsworth, an instructor who should have known better, dove at an automobile on the highway and made a fatal miscalculation. His AT6 trainer flattened out lower than he had expected, ripped one wing through the automobile, decapitated its driver. Somehow, Instructor Stittsworth pulled out, managed to get back home, pulled by a propeller that had lost its tips on the concrete road...