Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: At last we Venezuelans can be sure that while Johnson or someone like him is President of the U.S., no Communist coup will be successful in Venezuela because the great U.S. Marines will be there to stop them.
In 1915, after the ex-French colony of Haiti had deposed, blown up, poisoned or butchered six Presidents in four years, and with France already starting to land troops, U.S Marines moved in, ruled the Negro republic for 9 years. In 1916, after similarly bloody tumult in the Dominican Republic...
Another Fidel? Thus, late last week, the Dominican Republic got a loyalist government that could assert its right to govern against the claims of the so-called "constitutionalist" government of Rebel Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, 32, the officer who triggered the revolt on April 24. Caama...
Hate Chant. Even after a formal cease-fire was signed by Caamaño, the rebel radio kept up its hate chant: "Shoot the foreign invaders! Shoot the foreign invaders!" The opportunity came too often. Taking a wrong turn at the 30th of March Avenue, two paratroopers in a Jeep...
The sniper fire kept on. At week's end, a group of snipers popped up in the evacuation base at Haina, twelve miles west of Santo Domingo, and killed a marine warrant officer, while three more paratroopers were wounded in the city proper. By now, the U.S. casualty toll...