Word: militiamen
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...brother Harry posed for pistol-packing pictures. Barbot claimed that he was responsible for the recent killing of three guards and the attempted kidnaping of Duvalier's two children; since then, his men have fought half a dozen bloody skirmishes with Duvalier's militiamen. "I have many friends who say they are with Duvalier now," he said, "but inside they are with Barbot." If he does topple Duvalier, Barbot promises free elections within six months. But then he, too, wants to be President, and if the people insist, he will run in the elections...
...with bamboo fences, barbed wire and armed militiamen to keep the predatory Viet Cong from exacting food and manpower from a helpless peasantry. Already 8,000,000 villagers-59% of South Viet Nam's population-are living in the 6,000 hamlets that have so far been completed. Problem with Peasants. Though the government admits that fewer than one-third of the hamlets are defensible against a determined onslaught, the Reds are reluctant to attack the villages for fear of antagonizing the people. In some areas, thanks to higher standards of living in the hamlets, peasants...
...opening rally in a "Month of National Gratefulness to Duvalier," and the speaker was a henchman of Haiti's Dictator. Françpois Duvalier himself was on hand, surrounded by helmeted palace guards and blue-denimed militiamen. He had given orders for his men to explain to Haitians just what would happen in their tiny Caribbean Negro republic if anyone should try to topple "Papa...
...Bulgaria, 200 African university students on Communist scholarships marched down Sofia's Lenin Boulevard toward the office of Premier Todor Zhivkov to protest government restrictions. Instead of sympathy, they were met by 600 Bulgarian militiamen, who flailed the Africans with clubs and hauled them off to jail. All the students had asked for was permission to maintain an all-Africa Student Union...
...arrogant-or at least voluble -Castro soldiers ringing the base are not so cocky any more. In a month Guantanamo has been transformed from a post guarded by a thin contingent of marines into a front-line fort manned by thousands of combat-ready troops facing the 10,000 militiamen Castro has outside. It is not a particularly pleasant duty. The shrapnel-proof vests the marines wear are hot; they call Cuba's tiny, biting insects "flying teeth," and they already have a marine nickname for the militiamen opposite-"Ruben the Cuban." The marines have no special animosity toward...