Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trucks arrived last week, the Mamatola refused to budge. Standing barefoot in a faded green sweater among his councilors, the aging chief of the tribe gazed about him helplessly. "The government tells me I must move," he said, "but my people want to stay on in their mountain home. Let them take away our plows and our stock, if that is the trouble, but leave us here even if we must starve to death." "They can throw me in jail if they like," said his young assistant chieftain, "but I won't go to Metz...
Burdened by as much of their shabby belongings as they could carry, some 2,000 peasants of Cuba's rebel-held Sierra Maestra region plodded down mountain tracks last week toward lowland towns in the eastern province of Oriente. Evacuated by army order, they left behind the makings of a jungle guerrilla war-to-the-fmish between troops of President Fulgencio Batista and rebels led by Fidel Castro...
...antirebel drive began, Batista made his determination plain. He sent his PT boats, subchasers and gunboats to blockade the coastline south and west of the mountains. He airlifted more than 250 army reinforcements from Havana to Oriente. His Air Force B-26s skimmed the mountain treetops, looking for signs of rebel movements. He bitterly denounced "predatory oppositionists" and "criminal elements, including Communist collaborators," who "seek through terrorism and disorder to damage their nation's economy as well as its prestige to satisfy their own personal anti-patriotic ambitions." He rejected any thought of a truce...
Moving Target. But wiping out Castro & Co. called for more than angry words. The government troops, trained on flat, open land, had to fight in mountainous terrain in which the rebels were thoroughly at home. Batista's forces had orders to shoot at anything that moved-but in the tangled, rain-soaked forests of the Sierra Maestra it was hard to see anything move. In the 5½ months following Castro's Mexico-based invasion, his rebels learned how to fire from cover and silently slip away to fire again. Castro kept on the move constantly, toughening...
...heart disease. With a total of 11,870 deaths among the men (ages 50 to 70 when the study began in 1952), Drs. E. Cuyler Hammond and Daniel Horn were able to go far beyond the findings they had earlier reported (TIME, July 5, 1954 et seq.). From a mountain of crosschecked statistics submitted to the A.M.A. last week, they concluded: 1) all smoking shortens life; 2) cigarette smoking is by far the worst offender, and the risk goes up with the amount smoked...