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Besides, the Chinese do not need to use the bomb. Peking's 2,500,000-man army, backed by 15 million reservists, police and militiamen, is the largest ground force in the world. Supported by four artillery and armored divisions (the latter mostly equipped with Russian T-34 tanks), the forces are presently placed in Manchuria, around Peking, along the coast between Shanghai and Canton, in South China, and in the southwest opposite India. Since early this year, they have been undergoing intensified small-unit training. Though their military equipment is largely World War II vintage and their supply...
...calling itself the Revolutionary Recovery Movement. Last May, Artime's men blew up a sugar mill at Cabo Cruz on the south coast of Oriente province. Last week their target was a coastal radar station in the same area manned by Russian technicians and guarded by 150 Castro militiamen...
...Haiti, three separate bands of rebels are fighting in southern and western Haiti-two groups, with about 80 men, calling themselves the "Haitian Revolutionary Armed Forces" and another independent band of 100. Since the first skirmishes eight weeks ago, the rebels have killed at least 80 Duvalier militiamen, have shot one of Duvalier's three AT6 patrol planes out of the sky, and have blown up roads, bridges and trucks. One night, they reportedly raided and looted an armory 38 miles southeast of Port-au-Prince, then two days later sacked another military post 20 miles away. Haitians crossing...
Whether the guerrillas pose a serious threat to Papa Doc's dictatorship remains to be seen. But his nerves are starting to show. His internal military radio in Port-au-Prince has been heard exhorting militiamen in the field to capture "just one-just one prisoner." The militia commander replied that he could not even get a clear view of the guerrillas, much less catch one. Duvalier claims that the rebels are Communists from Cuba, has asked the U.S. to run reconnaissance flights over the Windward Passage. The U.S. found no evidence of any Cuban invasion effort...
...Both Red China and North Viet Nam continued to bellow against the U.S. retaliation, and Peking announced that more than 20 million people on the mainland had taken part in angry demonstrations against the U.S. Breathlessly, the Reds disclosed that in Fukien province alone 150,000 Chinese militiamen were limbering up with grenade-tossing exercises, target practice and river-crossing drills-and produced carefully posed pictures to prove it. But in terms of actual military support to North Viet Nam, Peking provided only 15 to 20 obsolescent MIG-15 and MIG-17 jet fighters, which would prove no match...