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...Line-Up. The latest provocation began with Cuba's wild and unsupported charge, placed before the United Nations Security Council, that the U.S. was "about to perpetrate, within a few hours, direct military aggression against the government and people of Cuba." Then, as Castro reviewed 100,000 militiamen in Havana and harangued the crowd celebrating his second anniversary in power, a bomb exploded near by. Raging that those responsible "received the splendid money with which the United States embassy paid for terrorism." Castro said that he would put a stop to the "swarm of Central Intelligence Service...
...Governor Sam Jones appointed a Plaquemines sheriff against Perez' wishes, Perez mobilized the able-bodied men of Plaquemines, including the American Legion, set up a flaming roadblock of gasoline-soaked oyster shells in an attempt to turn the appointee back. Frustrated by a convoy bristling with state militiamen, Perez retreated to mid-Mississippi on a ferryboat, resorted thereafter to a volley of lawsuits (15 at one time), finally defeated the Jonesman in a typically casual Delta election...
...Moscow?" challenged Archbishop Pérez Serantes' pastoral letter. "The cards are on the table. No one need be deceived. The battle is not between Washington and Moscow; it is really between Rome and Moscow." As the archbishop read his letter in Santiago Cathedral last week, 60 militiamen invaded the church, starting a day-long campaign of harassment that led to fist fights between Catholics and Castroites...
...landless today). But Varela's real job is keeping Communism's flag flying, no matter the cost. Last September a gang massacred four of Varela's brothers, all antiCommunists. Witnesses say the men who did the job looked very much like Varela's militiamen...
...night, Cubans listened to the anti-Castro broadcasts from U.S.-operated Radio Swan in the Caribbean and whispered among themselves that Castro militiamen had been found hanging from trees in the suburbs of Havana and Santi ago. Grocery stores reported a run on vinegar, as word spread that breathing through a vinegar-soaked cloth would counteract the effects of tear gas and other gases expected to be used when invasion starts...