Word: rams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of the invasion, Ramón Barquín was the military expert of the People's Revolutionary Movement, one of the autonomous organizations with representation on the council...
...Wall! As the studio audience chanted "to the wall," the announcer asked viewers to telephone immediately if they recognized any criminals among the men. One woman rushed forward to identify Prisoner RamÓn Calviño as a Batista torturer (he was, with 15 murders on his record, acknowledged the exiles), asked to be on the firing squad that executes him. A few brave men defied their inquisitors. Carlos Varona, 21, the son of Exile Leader Antonio Varona, and a paratrooper in the rebel army, coolly asked his jeering captors: "If you have so many people on your side...
...artillery, tanks and B-26 air support. Soon afterward, Castro's military duty officer at Jagüey Grande reported fighting on the beach. The choice of a landing place seemed to come as a surprise to a military expert of the Revolutionary Council, onetime Cuban Army Colonel Ramón Barqu...
...that eventually earned him a reputation as Cuba's best-known criminal lawyer, a professor's chair at his old university and the presidency of the Cuban College of Lawyers, the equivalent of a national bar association. His most celebrated case: the defense of Army Colonel Ramón Barquín, accused in 1956 of plotting against Batista. Barquín got six years on the Isle of Pines, but Miró's defense was so brilliant that he earned Batista's cordial hatred...
...drink or smoke. After serving a Coast Guard hitch during the Korean War and graduating from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, he moved to Pasadena, opened his first karate studio four years ago, started a second in January. He frowns upon any ostentatious use of karate, prefers to ram his fist through ten corrugated roof tiles in the privacy of his studio...