Word: militia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami and Manhattan, spokesmen for Miró Cardona's council announced fighting at Baracoa, Santa Clara and Pinar del Río. Rumors raced across the island that Brother Raül Castro had been captured in Oriente province. Reports of defections among navy and militia units were reinforced by a fragmentary radio call from a naval base east of Havana that there were only eight men left-all the rest had "walked away...
...tear to bits all those who show their heads," he cried. At a workers' meeting he lapsed into incoherency. But Brother Raul, the Defense Minister, and Castro's Communist Adviser Che Guevara seemed to be keeping their heads. They sent convoys of tanks and grimly silent militia rumbling out of Havana to guard the lonely beaches along the island's 2,200-mile perimeter. Raul Castro enlisted sugarcane cutters as fighters, invited them to set up their own jungle justice over people they were suspicious of: "The workers themselves will try saboteurs and execute them...
...massive, ramps-down landing on fortress Cuba, but contemplate many small infiltrations from outside and massive sabotage inside, which will in time signal a general uprising by Cubans against the Castro dictatorship. The rebels believe that a third of Castro's much ballyhooed, 200,000-man militia will shoot, one third will head for home, and another third will turn their guns on Castro. "This fight," said Manolo Ray, the underground leader in charge of sabotage, "is a fight of Cubans against Cubans...
Last week, two guerrilla leaders recently escaped from the Escambray told a TIME correspondent in Miami of the pres sure Castro was putting on the rebels. At first, arms could be smuggled in overland, but now Castro's militia blocks every road and path, and the supplies have been choked off. A radio transmitter was sent into the hills for use in arranging airdrops...
...Peace Corps will not be an ideological militia, and it will not be just another battle in the cold war. The Peace Corps will build, assist, and create--and will be a symbol of the heart of America for the whole world, Humphrey concluded...