Word: guantanamo
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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...
...once arrogant-or at least voluble -Castro soldiers ringing the base are not so cocky any more. In a month Guantanamo has been 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...
...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...
...last week to celebrate the 17th United Nations Day. The program: Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, played by the touring Leningrad Philharmonic. Before the concert, a grim joke made the rounds, to the effect that the Leningrad orchestra had canceled and President Kennedy had sent in the U.S. Marine Band from Guantanamo. In the corridors, there was much self-conscious gallows humor. A diplomat would say, "See you tomorrow - if there is a tomorrow." Or "Uganda will be admitted to the U.N. Thursday-if there is a Thursday...
Shaw is linked to a past in which social protest really did focus on prohibition. He admits that public interest has since turned from banning bottles to banning bombs, so he presents a liberal program for peace. He styles himself a Stuart Hughes liberal and proposes abandonment of Guantanamo, cessation of military foreign aid, and U.S. disarmament initiatives beyond the Hughes proposals. Domestically, he combines a clergyman's humanitarianism with his liberal faith and crusades for civil liberties and equal rights...