Word: namo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thump of dynamite blasting foxholes into the coral starts at dawn these days at Guantánamo Naval Base. All day newly arrived marines sweat and swear as they sandbag gun emplacements, communications lines and antitank positions...
Until recently, sea-oriented old "Gitmo," the besieged 45-sq.-mi. U.S. enclave on the southeast coast of Communist Cuba, counted only 300 combat marines, and their vintage M1 rifles were hardly a match for fast-firing Belgian weapons sported by Castro's militia. Now Guantánamo is grimly digging...
...fail to see how the nations that recently met at Belgrade, Yugoslavia [Sept. 15], can call themselves "neutral" when they see colonialism in Algeria, Angola and Guantánamo Naval Base without also seeing it in Albania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Rumania, Poland, Estonia, Hungary, Tibet, North Korea, Latvia, Lithuania and Mongolia...
...abortive, U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. He really ought to thank the U.S., said Che, because it gave Castro the victory he needed to achieve world prestige. Answered Goodwin: It was too bad Castro had not followed it up by an attack on the U.S. Guantánamo Naval Base. Che replied that under no circumstances would Cuba attack...
...French position. He seems equally sure that the U.S. will head off any General Assembly debate on the base at Bizerte lest it give an opportunity to Cuba's Fidel Castro, backed by the Soviet Union, to sound off about the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo...