Word: militia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plain of the Reeds stronghold, exactly where Colonel Cao wanted them. Suddenly shifting his troops, he deployed four infantry battalions on the Viet Cong's south flank. Three airborne battalions, backed up by armored companies moving overland, closed in on the Communists from the west and north. Provincial militia were called up to block off all roads into the plain...
Longino Dominguez. 44, was a village woodworker until he was bluntly advised to join the militia or lose his customers. "I told them, 'I am a carpenter, not a politician.'" said Dominguez last week after sailing to Florida with 16 others. A second refugee, Day Laborer Gabino Mendiola, 39, confirmed the story: "If you do not join the militia, you cannot get a job." Added Jose Aurelio Lechuga Villanueva, 53, a fisherman for 36 years: "A fisherman cannot live. I used to be able to sell fish freely. Now everything goes to the Agrarian Reform at their price...
Relations between Los Angeles and Las Vegas are still recovering from a flap over a speech by Las Vegas Civil Defense Leader J. Carlton Adair, who proposed a 5,000-man militia against the possibility of wartime refugees from California pouring into Nevada "like a swarm of locusts." And Civil Defense Coordinator Keith Dwyer of California's Riverside County (pop. 306,191) last week told a group of officials and reserve policemen in the town of Beaumont that as many as 150,000 refugees from Los Angeles might stream into Beaumont if there were an enemy attack, and that...
...Miami last week, one man who had spent three months in the Brazilian embassy reported that 97 people were living in the garage and two small servants' rooms. "We received one meal daily, composed of a big spoonful of rice and one of some pottage." Outside, militia patrols delight in firing shots to fray the asylees' nerves. Friends or relatives who come by to wave are roughed up; those who try to bring food are searched and insulted. Every so often the embassy's water is cut off for two or three days at a time...
...Electra that landed unexpectedly (the Cubans seemed as surprised as the passengers) at Havana's José Marti Airport. Just as unexpected was a cloudburst that accompanied the star visitor, Soviet Spaceman Yuri Gagarin, into Cuba. The rain soaked Gagarin, ruined his beautiful white uniform, and left the militia road guard standing unhappily at attention knee-deep in water...