Word: namo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fire & Water. So far, Castro has made no overt move against Guantánamo. Last October, when a fire threatened to destroy neighboring Caimanera, the base commander, Rear Admiral Frank W. Fenno, sent fire trucks to help extinguish the blaze, then gave more than half a ton of food. The Navy's thanks: statements by the base workers' union boss, Machinist Federico Figueras Larrazabal, that "workers at the naval base have to be alert to unmask any maneuver of the North American imperialists similar to that they performed when they blew up the Maine." As of last week...
...Navy has no intention of quitting Guantánamo, and the base can undoubtedly defend itself. The Navy does not expect that. What it does wait for is an attempt to make the base untenable by cutting off the only water supply for 6,800 Navymen and dependents, 2,200,000 gal. piped in daily from a Yateras River pumping station five miles outside base limits. Several times in late 1958. Castro's rebels turned off the water just to make the Americans jump. It can be done again; within a few days, the U.S. Navy would be shipping...
...Sent 10,000 Marines to the Guantaánamo naval base...