Word: militiamen
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...Cuban crisis recently, a truck driven by a U.S. marine went out of control on a steep hill at the Guantanamo naval base. The speeding truck hurtled down the hill, smashed through the steel Cyclone fence separating the base from the rest of Cuba, and rolled into Castroland. Red militiamen moved fast-the other way. The marine backed his truck home, but it was a long five minutes before the first Cuban, reassured that this was not the "imperialist invasion," returned to his post...
...Havana as Castro attempted to prove to the world that he was master of his own country and not merely a bedraggled and disregarded Kremlin puppet. Units of Castro's bathtub navy put to sea for "maneuvers" while the Maximum Leader himself loped around Havana posing with militiamen. Finally, he went on TV to convince Cubans that he was still the man in charge, the one on whom events centered...
...different kind of carnival, American diplomats in Moscow boarded up the embassy's ground-floor windows. A few hours later, 200 Russian students gathered before the building waving placards and shouting "Cuba yes, Yankee No!" Bottles of purple ink were hurled against the embassy wall before 50 Russian militiamen broke up the crowd. This first contrived affair was relatively mild. Later 3,000 ink-hurling students and workers smashed windows and chanted slogans for 3½ hours...
After weeks of ominous silence, the only hole in Castro's Cactus Curtain, Guantanamo's northeast gate, has now become the scene of a tense drama. Over the weekend, Cuban militiamen threw up a type of cattle chute-parallel lines of wire fencing some 300 yards long-through which the 2,300 Cuban civilians who work on the base were forced to pass. At 7 a.m. on Monday, as the first workers arrived, the shakedown began. Some men were stripped naked, each item of clothing carefully inspected for "documents." Others had their shirts or pants removed. Some were...
Clear & Hold. With the growth of the militiamen, the army is being released from static holding operations to make major offensive sweeps against the Viet Cong, sometimes clearing them from areas where no government forces have been in 15 years. In Kien Phong and Vinh Long provinces, where the Reds once dominated up to 65% of the population, swiftly mounted government raids against guerrilla training centers and supply depots have reduced the Communist-controlled populace to less than 30%. In the past year, the army's striking power has been massively enhanced by U.S. helicopters that can airlift Vietnamese...