Word: militiaization
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...open letter rebutting his "facile pronouncement," the legal facts are clear. The Federal Government has been fully empowered since Reconstruction to "take protective action in the circumstances that now prevail in Mississippi." >Section 332 of Title 10 of the U.S. Code authorizes the President to use state militia and federal troops "whenever he considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations or assemblages, or rebellions against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any state or territory by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings." It was under that statute that Presidents Eisenhower...
...death." Added Castro's little brother Raul, head of Cuba's armed forces: "We must be alert. We must be implacable." Castro canceled all military leaves and placed his armed forces on full alert. Havana University was drained as students were called to arms in militia units. Night after night, radar antennas scanned the sea and sky for any suspicious movement, while patrol boats and shore patrols filled in the radar gaps. So busy were MIG fighters that one jet narrowly missed ramming into a Cuban airliner over eastern Oriente province. Castro's internal radio even issued...
Linking up with a second force of guerrillas from the nearby Sierra Maestra mountains, the exiles had captured the town and held it for three hours against Castro's militia, during that time declaring it a "free territory of Cuba." They then blew up the Cabo Cruz sugar mill and disappeared. Puerto Pilón, the exiles noted with satisfaction, was only a few miles from the spot where Castro himself originally landed in 1956, and the Sierra Maestra was his sanctuary in the early stages of the revolution...
...status of his case is doubtful; his conviction carried an eight month suspended sentence, and the recent decision of the Polish militia only means that his stay in Poland may be ended. The U.S. Embassy in Warsaw is making sure that the suspended sentence can be considered final...
...that toppled the country's feudal tin-mining aristocracy. But once in power, Paz and Lechin swiftly became bitter rivals. As Minister of Mines, Lechin, who is part Arab and part Indian, styled himself a "Trotskyite Communist," turned the 40,000-man miners' union into his private militia, and proceeded to featherbed the nationalized mines with 6,000 unneeded workers. The miners called him "El Maestro"-but the once profitable mines became a shambles, losing money at the rate of $8,500,000 a year. Lechin's miners elected him president of the entire Bolivian Workers Federation...