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Contributing Editor John M. Scott said he expected to be called to lifeboat drill. There were some cries of alarm and many squeals of delight: Books Researchers Joyce Haber and Ruth Brine found themselves in a cozy, five-window corner office that hung over the city like a B-36 turret...
...knows where Castro's madness will drive him next. Cuba already has the look of a nation at war. Black-bereted militia drill in Havana's parks, empty lots, and along the seaside Malecón drive; children's yellow-shirted militia go from door to door begging contributions for "arms and planes"; the government TV station puts on a nightly street-corner "defense" telethon for arms funds...
...heavily manned with flask-toting, city-bred New Yorkers. No one needed to be caught alive or dead in olive drab; the uniform was a brilliant cerulean blue with a flashy stripe down the trouser leg. The training grounds were the fields of Hempstead, Long Island. The close-order drill came from Gettysburg and Waterloo, and the chow seemed almost as old. Writes Post...
...Algiers. Their barricades of paving blocks sealed off street after street around the university. Students cradling Tommy guns sat on the roofs, dangling their legs. Members of the Front National Français poured in from the nearby slums to stand guard under their black Celtic crosses or to drill in the makeshift uniforms of the territorial army, a sort of Algerian home guard. Truckloads of armed peasants had rushed in from the rich plain of Mitidja. And there were the girls of all of them, serving as nurses or waitresses or human chains to pass stones to the barricades...
...quit in disgust after Castro told a secret meeting of I.N.R.A. officials last October that he had no intention of giving plots of land to peasants, planned to keep it instead in state-run cooperative farms. Artime also said he was sick of hearing "youth brigades" chanting their military drill cadence count outside his window every evening:" Uno-dos-tres-cuatro- viva-Fidel-Castro...