Word: militiamen
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...inevitable that there would be shouts and shoving, mostly against the U.S. So, right on schedule, it came to pass. In Moscow, well-organized throngs marched on the U.S. embassy to toss inkpots and rocks; they were easily kept from getting really riotous by a phalanx of Soviet militiamen. In Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, La Paz, Caracas, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, unruly mobs of students and workers milled in the streets and battled with police and one another. In Tokyo, left-wing students and Communists stormed around the U.S. embassy. In Egypt, Nasser-organized squads of yelling youths...
...Cuba, the Roman Circus was on. Radios blared the March of the Sierra Maestra, and orators described the heroic fight in glowing detail. On Havana street corners, groups of prancing militiamen fired their Czech burp guns into the air, and Jeeps draped with hot-eyed youths careened along the avenues. Communist-country correspondents were hustled off to the shell-pocked beachhead to view the wreckage of invasion-U.S.-made mortars, recoilless rifles, trucks, machine guns, rifles, and medium tanks. A few of the 400 captured survivors were shown on TV, while commentators jabbed jubilant questions at them. The government...
Reverses in the Hills. Castro has reason to sneer. For 14 months large groups of rebels have been fighting a desperate battle through the hills of Cuba. It is a battle that Castro is winning. He has poured 60,000 militiamen into the central Escambray hills alone and claims to have captured 80% of the 1,000 rebels operating there. Though the claims are undoubtedly exaggerated, the rebels have been scattered, disorganized and discouraged. Several leaders have been killed, others captured; a few have been smuggled out of Cuba to Miami, where they are trying to reorganize for another attempt...
...unexpected, and vanish. In response, Castro has resorted to tactics very like those Batista used against him. Castro gradually pulled his regular troops out of the Escambray because they can't be relied on to fight old comrades-in-arms. In place of the regulars, Castro sent in militiamen, who cautiously refrained from going into the brush, and at night retired from the hills for safety...
During the last three weeks, increasing the number of militia around the Escambray to 50,000, Castro has moved all peasants out of the area to deny the rebels a local food source. Establishing three concentric rings of militiamen around the rebel area, he has settled down to starve his enemies out. In an attempted diversionary move, some 200 rebels rose around Baracoa, in the eastern end of the island, but still Castro maintains his pressure on the Escambray...