Word: militia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Fidel Castro's Armed Forces Ministry one day last week came a high-pitched communiqué. An invasion force, said the ministry, landed on the north shore of Oriente province and was engaged by the militia. In the fight Invasion Leader Armentino Feria, described as a follower of Batista Gangster Rolando Masferrer, was killed. Captured, according to the communiqué, were two of his men, plus a U.S. flag, a U.S. Army manual, a U.S. Army uniform, seven U.S. carbines and three muleloads of ammunition. The remaining invaders, totaling 24 men, escaped to the hills. Inevitably the ministry...
...more evidence of Castro's growing troubles. Some 315 miles to the west, in the Sierra Escambray, small groups of oppositionists have joined in a nettlesome guerrilla force estimated at 400 to 1,000 fighting men. Castro has sent 10,000 to 15,000 militia to surround the rebels, who apparently are getting weapons by air. Last week the Cubans were getting so nervous that they forced down a Nicaraguan cargo plane, grilled the pilots for eight hours...
Acquisition of these powerful big brothers-who might or might not in a pinch come to Castro's aid-did not stop Che from training his first line of defense, a civilian militia reported to be 350,000 strong. Needing a guerrilla-warfare textbook for the militiamen, Che wrote one. Excerpts: "The great exasperation of the enemy army will be that of not finding anything solid to come up against; everything will be a gelatinous mass, moving, impenetrable, that goes on retreating and, while wounding on all sides, does not present a solid front...
...Like the militia at Lexington, the straggling but powerful forces of the nation's industrial states rallied in the House last week to shoot down a proposal for a still bigger farm-subsidy handout. There were some who thought that the shot would ring through the next session of Congress, might well signal the beginning of the end for the whole ramshackle $7 billion-a-year farm-subsidy program. The battle began because Midwestern farm Democrats had boldly determined to play election-year politics with wheat. In a straight party-line vote, they engineered the defeat...
...miners' un ion, will stand squarely in his way; Union Boss Lechin opposes firing unnecessary workers or demanding more production. Sooner or later, if he is to achieve his aims, Paz Estenssoro will presumably have to clash with Lechin - and Lechin has be hind him the miners' militia, the country's best armed force...