Word: militia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leyden and is conceited enough to blurt: "Either I am a second Michelangelo or I'm an ass!" What follows is the detailed story of his success (when he wins his first noble patron), his failure (when his celebrated Night Watch insults prominent members of the local militia, whose faces he partially hid in the background), and his Job-like sufferings. One by one, father, mother, crippled brother and spinster sister go to their graves. Three children are either stillborn or die in infancy before a sickly son survives. Then the wife dies, the child's loving nurse...
...embassy hatched a plot with local Communists to overturn the government of Reformer-President Victor Paz Estenssoro with a "hunger march" on the capital by striking leftist tin miners. Forewarned, the Bolivian government declared a state of siege, rounded up the chief conspirators and called out a well-armed militia of nonstriking workers to block all roads into the capital. The march fizzled...
...rush to select a scapegoat" for the abortive Cuban-invasion attempt, need look no farther than their own typewriters. If the CIA was uninformed as to the real conditions in Cuba, especially concerning the morale of the masses and the probability of wholesale defections from Castro's militia, then the American newspaper readers were doubly...
...crept down the stairs, shoes in hand, and made it past his apartment to the street. He rode a city bus downtown, found a Jamaican cabby he knew who drove him to the former U.S. embassy residence, now occupied by the Swiss. Bluffing his way past Castro's militia guards, he was admitted as a "guest," and there he stayed until he was able to make his way out of Cuba...
...several prisoners fell sick. Doctors among the prisoners set up a makeshift dispensary in a dungeon once used by Spaniards for garrote executions; other prisoners held in a dry moat outside dug holes in the ground with shovels for makeshift toilets. In Havana's huge Blanquita Theater, the militia used dogs to guard 5,000 men and women. The dogs panicked the prisoners, and the militia fired into the crowd, wounding two. After the initial wave of 30 executions in the invasion's first 48 hours, the regime stopped issuing bulletins-but did not stop killing. The reports...