Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...height of the Cuban crisis recently, a truck driven by a U.S. marine went out of control on a steep hill at the Guantanamo naval base. The speeding truck hurtled down the hill, smashed through the steel Cyclone fence separating the base from the rest of Cuba, and rolled into Castroland. Red militiamen moved fast-the other way. The marine backed his truck home, but it was a long five minutes before the first Cuban, reassured that this was not the "imperialist invasion," returned to his post...
...that it would defend the flights if necessary. If Castro shoots down a U.S. aircraft, the U.S. is prepared to 1) bomb certain Cuban antiaircraft installations already targeted for U.S. air strikes, and 2) bomb the Il-28s now crated or semiassembled at San Julian airfield in western Cuba...
...transformed from a post guarded by a thin contingent of marines into a front-line fort manned by thousands of combat-ready troops facing the 10,000 militiamen Castro has outside. It is not a particularly pleasant duty. The shrapnel-proof vests the marines wear are hot; they call Cuba's tiny, biting insects "flying teeth," and they already have a marine nickname for the militiamen opposite-"Ruben the Cuban." The marines have no special animosity toward Castro's troops, but they are honed to such a fighting pitch that, as Corporal Jerome Golden, 22, says flatly: "There...
...reinforcement of Guantanamo started on Sunday, Oct. 21, the day before President Kennedy's TV speech announcing the Soviet missiles in Cuba. Before dawn, waves of big Boeing C-135 jet transports started slamming down on Guantanamo's Carter Airfield. Each plane carried 125 fully equipped marines, among them platoons of "force reconnaissance" marines with a very special job: to scout out the size and type of enemy forces. Within 5^ hours, the airlift was completed...
Russia's retreat in Cuba and Red China's attack in India are dividing partisans of Moscow and Peking everywhere. A minority faction of "Chinese" and Stalinist sympathizers in the Belgian Communist Party supported the "rectitude of Castro's cause" and condemned the "imperialist aggression of Nehru." On the other hand, Italian Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti, once a Stalinist but now a loyal Khru-shchevite, pointedly declined to take sides between India and China. Said he: "We don't know where the truth lies...