Word: paratrooper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commander of the rebel barricades in the heart of Algiers, Lagaillarde wore his old paratroop uniform, sported a short paratrooper beard, was often accompanied by his second wife, a flashy blonde schoolteacher named Janine, but called "Coco." A violent nationalist and xenophobe, Lagaillarde declares himself antiCommunist, anti-Semitic and anti-Wall Street. As a teenager, when he recklessly engaged in hot-rod races on the twisting mountain roads outside Algiers, Lagaillarde was locally known as a casse-tout, or hell raiser. He has changed little with the years...
...Captain Manuel Rojo del Rio, an old fighting comrade of Castro who lately has borne the title of Cuba's paratroop commander, defected while on a visit to Costa Rica. Of Castro he said: "There is something in his eyes that frightens even the bravest man. They reflect madness." Rojo called Fidel's brother. Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, a "vindictive jelly bean" with a "resentment against the masculine type of man," and said that "all .his aides are Communists...