Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision last week to shut off all travel to Cuba, makes it harder to shunt agents back and forth. Castro's decree of the death penalty for all counter-revolutionary activities-including mere possession of a bottle of gasoline (in Castro's lexicon, that equals one Molotov cocktail)-"is having a great effect," says a Frente leader. "Underground work is much harder now. People are no longer willing to hide revolutionaries because it means death...
...next day the mob came back for more. From balconies and rooftops, demonstrators showered roof tiles and bricks on the advancing lines of police. Leather-jacketed young men hurled Molotov cocktails, which burst into flowers of orange flame and clouds of oily smoke. In a doorway a young girl, her eyes streaming from tear gas, screamed at the police: "Executioners!" Dangerous but disorganized the mob fought furiously, but with an aimless fury born of frustration...
...Castro, they jam into households that already crowd 12 to 18 people into a single house, spend their time talking, arguing and fighting their own civil war against the Fidelistas in Miami's permanent Cuban population of some 40,000. Score in recent weeks: two dynamitings, four Molotov-cocktail attacks, one case of arson, about evenly split between pro-and anti-Castro factions...
With the same weapons that made life unbearable for Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cuba's new revolutionaries are setting out to make nightmares for the new dictator. Not a day passes without a bomb explosion in Havana-a grenade tossed inside the Capitol Building, a Molotov cocktail splashed against a government Jeep. One night last week bombs exploded in a water main, a power transformer, a government-operated filling station, several shops...
...school board. There fire trucks backed up another police line, finally scattered them with billowing streams of water. All afternoon and evening, gangs of whites and Negroes prowled the narrow, ill-lit streets of the French Quarter, stoning cars, attacking luckless individuals who came their way, tossing homemade Molotov cocktails through darkened windows. Before the rioting ended, New Orleans' tough, alert police, working on extralong, twelve-hour shifts, had arrested 240 persons (215 of them Negro) on charges ranging from loitering to assault...