Word: militia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still in the statistics of economy. The country runs on sugar, and under Communism sugar has been ruined. Little or no cane has been replanted for three years ; most fields have not been fertilized. Many of the ex pert cane cutters who normally harvest the crop are in the militia, and the "vol unteers" who replace them have hacked the stalks so badly that normal regrowth is stopped or stunted. In pre-Castro years, Cuba could count on about 5,000,000 tons of sugar, for which it got an average $500 million, most of it from...
...coasting to a halt for lack of spare parts and mechanics to install them. One of Castro's captive newspapers counted 280 bus breakdowns on Havana's streets in one day alone recently. "What am I supposed to do when this thing finally goes-join the militia?" said the disgruntled driver of a 1953 Cadillac taxi. Cubans are leary of the Coca-Cola they drink-it has been known to contain cockroach eggs; in bars they pointedly order Coke "sin bacilli" (without germs). "My father would be very sad to see this," said the son of the late...
...like the others in depending on U.S. funds for all its equipment, from medical supplies to schoolbooks. loudspeakers to farm tools. A U.S. military mission will recruit, train and arm a local militia to take over in three months when the 5th Division moves on to another area. If in that time administrative corruption has not canceled out the promised benefits, and if the standard of living is obviously higher, in all probability the peasant militiamen will fight to defend what they have. The Viet Cong last week gave clear indication of its own uneasiness at this new development...
Until recently, sea-oriented old "Gitmo," the besieged 45-sq.-mi. U.S. enclave on the southeast coast of Communist Cuba, counted only 300 combat marines, and their vintage M1 rifles were hardly a match for fast-firing Belgian weapons sported by Castro's militia. Now Guantánamo is grimly digging...
...Determined to raise a conscript army in addition to the existing workers' militia, Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht's regime sent out draft orders to 524,000 men. The move provoked a rare outburst of vocal opposition. Ex-servicemen wrote indignant letters to the press recalling their pledge-signed when they were released from Soviet P.W. camps-never to bear arms again. In embarrassed newspeak, Communist officials reassured the veterans that they "need not worry about breaking the pledge. You are being called to protect freedom, to help the Soviet Union protect the working class...