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Word: caama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...territory. Behind a barrage of machine-gun and rifle fire from rooftop emplacements, platoons of paratroopers swept forward into a 40-block area, overrunning sandbagged street positions, searching houses and hauling out snipers. By late afternoon, the paratroopers were four to six blocks deep in the rebel zone, squeezing Caamaño's remaining men into an area barely one mile square. The U.S. troops now stood on the last hill before the ocean, looking down into the shattered rebel stronghold. After two days, the shooting gradually began to taper off. Four U.S. paratroopers were dead, another 39 wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: The Fighting Resumes | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...There will not be peace until the last invader is destroyed and the last Yankee property is seized," he cried. "We have blood in our eye, hair on our chest and tobacco in our bladder. There is only one road - war." Soon after came Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, who triggered the vicious little civil war, named himself "constitutionalist" President, and says he is for democracy. "We will fight to the end!" roared Caamaño. "There will not be one step backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: The Fighting Resumes | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...hours later, the city's fragile cease-fire erupted in the bloodiest fighting since the first days of the eight-week-old war. At 8 a.m., a U.S. 82nd Airborne noncom was inspecting weapons along the international corridor when a bullet plowed into his buttocks. From Colonel Caamaño's rebel positions in downtown Santo Domingo, a stream of rifle fire laced into the troops of the OAS Inter-American Peace Force. For half an hour it went on without a reply. Another paratrooper got it in the neck. At last, the order to shoot back came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: The Fighting Resumes | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

Tanks & Snipers. At an intersection, one of Caamaño's rebel tanks clanked up and fired into an 82nd Airborne command post, tearing off a radioman's leg. The paratroopers turned the tank into a furnace with seven rounds from a 106-mm. recoilless rifle. Near by, a careening rebel scout car ran into a barrage of M-14 fire that wounded two men riding in the rear. "I wasn't ready to start this crap again," muttered a U.S. paratrooper. He then squinted through his rifle sight and started working over a sniper-infested schoolhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: The Fighting Resumes | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

...neutral, third-force" government composed of uncommitted, nonpolitical business and professional men, who would serve as caretakers for at least six months under the protection of OAS troops. Then, perhaps, tempers will have cooled enough to permit elections. No one-except Imbert-seemed ready or willing to force Caamaño to come to terms in the near future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: The Broken Record | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

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