Word: camps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolution. Asked the Togolese huffily: "What revolution?" At his shabby house, called La Hutte, the debonair Premier airily dismissed a guard assigned to protect him against assassination: "Go away. I don't need you. If you want to sit up all night at the alert, go to your camp and do it, but leave me in peace." He went back to his dinner, chuckling. "A coup d'état by the Juvento?" he scoffed. "Nonsense. They are much too busy dividing themselves into factions. They haven't time ta plan...
With jubilation and bloody revenge, Cuba's new government stepped off toward its uncharted, uncertain future. Rebel Fidel Castro came to Havana, the age-old smile of the conqueror on his face. He pushed through screaming Havana mobs to Camp Columbia, stronghold of ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista's army. The march of los barbudos, the bearded rebels who toppled Batista after two dogged years of guerrilla warfare, was complete...
...through the throngs to the palace, where Castro got a warm abrazo from his hand-picked President, Manuel Urrutia. "I never did like this palace," Castro told the crowd, "and I know you do not either, but maybe the new government will change our feel ings." Later, at Camp Columbia, where 30,000 people waited, he spoke in his high-pitched voice, promising "peace with liberty, peace with justice, peace with individual rights." A white dove flew up from the crowd and settled on Fidel's right shoulder. After two nights of almost no sleep, he bedded down...
...women stayed in the hills, bringing to Castro's disorganized camp a touch of petticoat efficiency. Most important girl rebel was Celia Sanchez, an olive-skinned brunette of about 30. Castro's secretary and money handler, she was a key personage in the headquarters after Castro; captains and lieutenants moved on her orders as though the "commandante" had personally given them. Haydee Santamaria, 31, now the wife of Education Minister Armando Hart, joined the uprising after Batista's jailers killed her rebel fiance and brother. In Castro's casual headquarters she was a cook one moment...
...Worshipers. Base camp for Teacher Duff's job is the jungle outpost of Yarinacocha. Bush planes fly the Tennessee teacher and her partner, Florida-reared Mary Ruth Wise, to the vicinity of Amuesha villages, land on the rivers. From there the journeys are by foot or raft. For three months each year, the women return to Yarinacocha with likely Indian prospects, help turn the natives into teachers. The Peruvian government pays salaries of Indian teachers and helps finance the base settlement, but Teacher Duff and fellow linguists who work with other tribes are supported by Wycliffe Bible Translators...