Word: militiaization
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...remainder, to build schools, both urban and rural. Thus two positive ends would have been attained: an honest and efficient administration of these resources and a sense of gratitude toward the U.S. Government. Now, instead, these funds have only served to meet punctually the salaries of the armed militia, torturers of decent citizens...
...Night), Minister of Culture Andre (Man's Fate) Malraux delivered a stirring address to an unlikely crowd of Resistance veterans, movie starlets, beatniks and the sports-car set up from St.-Tropez. They all struggled into ill-fitting boots and khaki uniforms as members of an impromptu militia...
...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...
...greatest of all the failures was the failure of intelligence. Advisers to the invasion army professed to believe that the Cuban peasantry and militia were so fed up with Castro's Communism that there would be mass defections. But the area chosen for the invasion was one in which Castro spends many weekends fishing, resting and talking with the peasants; he has a grand, job-producing scheme under way to drain the swamp and turn it into a tourist attraction. The peasants remained loyal to Castro and added their weight to the militia, which fought well enough...
...single Viennese Jew in Israel who had ever known Beer back in Austria. An Austrian Defense Ministry official said that Beer's name does not appear on the roster of former students at Wiener Neustadt. Beer's vaunted military heroism also faded: veterans of the Socialist Schutzbund (militia), who had defended their Vienna homes for a bloody four days in 1934 against Dollfuss' semi-fascist regime, denied that Beer had fought beside them, nor could any record be found to support his claim that he commanded a Loyalist battalion during the Spanish Civil War. Beer...