Word: numa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victims-were Louis Drouin, 28, a short, stocky mulatto, and Marcel Numa, 21, a tall handsome Negro, both members of a 13-man guerrilla force that landed on Haiti's southern coast four months ago. Operating independently of other scattered bands in Haiti, they ambushed troop columns, encouraged peasants to defy their Duvalier overseers. Papa Doc had no trouble finding out who they were; in tiny Negro Haiti, the word gets around fast by telediol grapevine...
...distant relatives of the rebels. Drouin's family was marched naked through the streets of their home town and "removed" at a nearby army barracks. Meantime, Duvalier's rag-tag army was killing off the miniature force one by one. The government bragged that only Drouin and Numa remained...
...embassy and handed Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II a truculent letter. It declared that President Eisenhower's impending visit to Japan, scheduled for June 19, "will only provoke the Japanese people, already infuriated by the passing of the security pact." Mac-Arthur retorted with a demand that Asa numa retract his widely ballyhooed statements that "the U.S. is the common enemy of China and Japan." "Not the American people," cried Asanuma. "American imperialism!" What was the difference? "Mr. Asanuma was unable to make any clear distinction," observed MacArthur in a public statement after the meeting. As for Asanuma...