Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some assistance. The invasions crushed last month by Trujillo came from Cuba, and Dominican Ambassador to the OAS Virgilio Díaz Ordóñez charged that a new, 3,000-man force was training in Cuba, backed by 25 Venezuelan warplanes. Under terms of the 1947 Rio de Janeiro treaty pledging mutual assistance against aggression, the Dominicans demanded a fact-finding mission...
...Louis, Mo., Municipal Opera: Rio Rita, over-the-border banditry still bouncy with the music...
Trujillo, who had already charged at the U.N. that 25 Soviet "guerrilla warfare experts" were training 3,000 men in Pinar del Rio for Castro's Caribbean "subversive activities," reacted quickly. He had his OAS delegate demand a special session of the OAS council to ask for an investigation. Castro snapped back angrily that he would permit no "interference" in his territory...
...With Machetes." Castro more and more needs a strong political army because his half-baked reform ideas, skillfully shaped by Communists, are dividing Cuba along class-struggle lines. Last week bands of oppositionists were reported gathering in the hills of eastern Oriente and western Pinar del Rio provinces, and there were large troop movements up and down the island...
...Dominican Republic, published what he said was a pre-election pact between himself and Frondizi. Thus provoked, the plotters moved up the date. At the signal-to be given by Rear Admiral Arturo Rial-the traditionally anti-Peronist Córdoba garrison would rise, and warships from the Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano bases would steam along the River Plate and blockade Buenos Aires. It was roughly the same plan that toppled Peron in 1955-Fatal Flaw. But the plan had a paradoxical flaw: too many other officers outside the plot were also angry with Frondizi. After the Peron "revelation...