Word: militiamen
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...newspapers, radio and TV commentators beat the drums, the country went on a virtual war footing. The government recalled troops to barracks, ordered militiamen to assembly points, and deployed thousands of men along the fortified beaches on the south coast between the provinces of Pinar del Rio and Camagüey. Using the "threat to Cuba" as a whiplash to complete the country's Communization, Castro's government warned workers to get into the militia or be classified as "traitors or cowards...
Accompanied by armed militiamen, officers of Fidel Castro's government printing office last week in Havana seized the printing facilities of a Cuban publisher who printed two "Yankee imperialist" magazines: the Latin American editions of TIME and the Reader's Digest. Aware that such a move was imminent, TIME production managers had already made emergency printing arrangements with the Atlanta firm of W. R. Bean & Son (which was used to such emergencies: it printed TIME'S Latin American edition 24 times in 1958 when Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista shut down the Havana plant in displeasure at TIME...
Acquisition of these powerful big brothers-who might or might not in a pinch come to Castro's aid-did not stop Che from training his first line of defense, a civilian militia reported to be 350,000 strong. Needing a guerrilla-warfare textbook for the militiamen, Che wrote one. Excerpts: "The great exasperation of the enemy army will be that of not finding anything solid to come up against; everything will be a gelatinous mass, moving, impenetrable, that goes on retreating and, while wounding on all sides, does not present a solid front...
However much sense they made-and they made a great deal-LeMay's remarks inevitably brought an outraged reaction from the hard-lobbying, politically potent National Guard Association, which sees a threat to the Guard's existence behind every career general's star. The militiamen, holding their national convention in San Antonio last week, cheered Texas Governor Price Daniel's charge that LeMay is an enemy of states' rights-"the typical Federal-minded bureaucrat that thinks the Federal Government has to run everything." The association brushed aside Air Force Secretary James Douglas' conciliatory telegram...
...seemed plain. At the height of last week's anniversary parade, 100 dark green tanks and 144 motorized artillery pieces clanked onto the broad square before Mao and Khrushchev. The pavement rang to the cadenced tread of 100,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen, and nine massive columns of militiamen. From overhead came the whine and rumble of 155 Chinese-made jet bombers and fighters. The procession ended, heavy with menace, as 700,000 workers marched by, 100 abreast, shouting, "Liberate Taiwan...