Word: militia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Branches. All the militiamen Castro has mustered so far-10,000 men with Soviet-bloc guns-have not been able to rout the rebels out of their rocky, cave-pitted hillsides in the Escambray mountains 170 miles east of Havana. The fighting is small-scale but so bitter that militia units are losing their taste for the chase. Castro, like Batista before him, has resorted to promising common criminals their freedom if they will fight. For the rebels, help from the outside increases: the Escambray has received much of the 40 tons of opposition arms airdropped into Cuba; small groups...
Flying southeast down the island to the hills where 400 rebels are holed up, Castro first tried to arrange a parley with one of their leaders, a former captain in his army. When that failed, 10,000 militia attacked and were driven off. In Havana, Castro wasted no time in persuasion; his revolutionary tribunals held 13 trials in five days, cranked out prison terms of nine to 30 years for 77 "counter-revolutionaries," death for nine more...
...group of anti-Communist former Castro followers who call themselves the Revolutionary Movement of the People and are organized in every province and major municipality. Using the techniques they learned with Castro, they fight him by breaking political prisoners out of jail, by derailing trains, shooting up militia patrols and triggering bombs at strategic points. M.R.P. men blacked out Camagüey for three days, went on to set off 13 blasts that knocked out main Havana power circuits for 20 hours...
...Freeman also pushed property taxes to an alltime state high, ran into trouble last year with the normally cooperative legislature when he tried to install pay-as-you-go income taxes. G.O.P. opponents made much of the tax fight and chided Freeman's poor judgment in sending state militia to close a strikebound Wilson & Co. Inc. meat-packing plant, an action reversed in federal court. Upshot: Freeman lost by 23,000 votes to Republican Newcomer Elmer Andersen, while Friend Hubert Humphrey was winning a third Senate term and Jack Kennedy was carrying the state...
...force the plane to Miami. The ship crash-landed, and the dash to freedom ended. A day later, after a kangaroo trial, the four men were sentenced to die. ¶In Las Villas province, where the government had earlier reported a complete cleanout of the Sierra Escambray rebel bands, militia and artillery moved into the hills for a new assault on the freedom fighters' stronghold...