Word: leaflets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pamphlet, referring to last month's unarmed leaflet-dropping run to Havana from Florida by Castro's ex-Air Force Chief Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, went out in more than 100,000 English-and Spanish-language copies for worldwide distribution. "Inaccurate, malicious and misleading," answered an official U.S. note, "An offensive brochure." The Castro lies served the Communist purpose well. "When, at last, will the Yankees stop the bombings?" sighed Pravda...
...candi date for the wall: Major Hubert Matos, the revolutionary hero who quit the army a fortnight ago charging Communist infiltration (TIME, Nov. 2) and for his troubles wound up in prison along with 38 of his officers. "Pilots who crash here," added Castro, referring to the leaflet-dropping runs by U.S.-based Cuban exiles, "will know that the firing squad awaits them inexorably...
Castro previously has shown extreme irritation with anti-Castro leaflet raids carried out from Florida since last mid-week and attributed to a former Cuban air force chief. This time he specifically charged a fire-bombing occurred...
...sets, cars and motor scooters, often go abroad for their holidays. Free education enables their children to aspire to be physicians, naval officers, scientists. "Working class" has become a pejorative phrase. In the new low-cost housing development at East Grinstead, authorities recently refused to distribute a police leaflet giving advice on protecting homes from burglars until the phrase "working-class families" was eliminated. Laborers no longer doff their hats to squires or mumble that the good things of life "are not for the likes o' me," and more and more of them, in their work clothes, move from...
...British put a price of $28,000 on his head, and for four years up to 25,000 British troops combed the island of Cyprus searching for him. Everywhere they found traces of his handiwork-a defiant leaflet, a mine in the road, a body in the street. But nowhere did the British find Colonel George Grivas, hated and feared chief of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground organization EOKA. Sometimes the British even wondered whether the legendary Grivas existed...