Word: militiaization
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...over the heads of the crowd, inadvertently killed some young Russians perched in the dark on trees and utility poles. As their bodies fell to the ground, the rioters exploded with rage. Party headquarters was sacked; officials were beaten to the floor as they frantically telephoned for reinforcements. Fresh militia and secret police units raced to the scene, opened up with machine guns. Hundreds are believed to have died and hundreds more wounded before the riot was quelled...
...hierarchy, then follow up with sabotage and uprisings that would engulf Cuba in turmoil. Behind the plot was a reorganized Cuban underground, including a new group consisting largely of Cuban military men fed up with Castro. The plotters reportedly had backing in the Cuban army, the navy, even the militia. But they paid dearly for their plans...
Earlier in the week, as if in fear of the large-scale invasion he constantly foresees, Castro staged a partial mobilization of his 400,000-man militia. Rumors spread of threatened insurrection in Las Villas province, of landings of anti-Castro guerrillas in the province's sheltered inlets. Castro's precautions may only have been set off by the recent daring attack on Havana's waterfront by two boatloads of youths from the underground Revolutionary Student Directorate. More likely, Castro reasoned that the U.S. would not stand by while Russia builds Cuba's military strength...
...chief of the 50-man U.S. Marine mission sent down to train Haiti's soldiers, has indicated still more U.S. displeasure. In a note, approved by the highest levels of both the Pentagon and the State Department, he coldly suggested that Duvalier abolish the brutal 8,000-man militia that operates as the dictator's irregular private army, terrorizing the French-speaking Negro republic...
...death, but was released in a routine exchange of prisoners. He quickly joined Franco, was soon commanding a corps on the Pyrenees front. At the end of the war, Munoz Grandes, at Franco's behest, became secretary-general of the Fascist Falange, specifically to integrate the freewheeling Falangist militia into the Spanish army...