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After midnight, in simultaneous landings at three beaches on the Bay of Pigs, 90 miles southeast of Havana (see map), the attackers went in with artillery, tanks and B-26 air support. Soon afterward, Castro's military duty officer at Jagüey Grande reported fighting on the beach. The choice of a landing place seemed to come as a surprise to a military expert of the Revolutionary Council, onetime Cuban Army Colonel Ramón Barqu...
...very narrow road and a railroad bed from the beach to Jagüey Grande," he said, "a distance of 24 miles, with swamp on both sides and mosquitoes, mosquitoes, mosquitoes. This swamp offers some advantages-you can't be flanked. But it makes no difference; you can be stopped easily enough." Nevertheless, the plan was to cut Cuba in two by stabbing quickly northward along the road and the railroad bed to the main east-west highway, and on to the northern coast...
...sings, dances, waltzes a bull, tools a Jag, rolls them bones, engages in cagy combat with a self-opening door, and carries off scene after lifeless scene with a diffident charm that almost completely conceals his formidable comic...
With the new constitution authorized, Kwak, Huh and the Assembly will be automatically out of office on July 29. Then elections will be held to choose South Korea's new leaders. It was the most encouraging sign yet that South Korea was recovering from its post-revolutionary jag of vengeance and mutual acrimony, which at one time had brought the country perilously close to chaos...
Synthetic Miracle. Late last month, as Bhave turned over to police a batch of 20 dacoits, emotional India went on a jag: bar associations pledged to supply defense counsel without charge, and Bhave's womenfolk garlanded the prisoners with tinsel like so many heroes. Even India's President Prasad sent Bhave a message of congratulations: "The whole nation looks with hope and admiration at the manner in which you have been able to arouse better instincts." In all the hullabaloo, no one paid much attention to the fact that Lakhan Singh, No. 1 dacoit on the still...