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...more than 6,000 combat troops that Cuba has provided at the Russians' bidding are led by no fewer than seven officers with the rank of brigade commander (roughly equivalent to brigadier general). They are believed to include Senen Casas Reguiero, who was first deputy minister of the Cuban armed forces and chief of the general staff, and his brother Julio, a top logistics expert...
Perhaps the ugliest scene occurred at the Pasar Senen shopping center, where thousands of rioters looted the Chinese-owned stores and stalls and started fires. Seven of the ten known victims of the two-day riots were killed here. The number of dead would have been far greater if the Indonesian police and troops had not held their fire. "It would have been impolite," explained Foreign Minister Adam Malik, "to start shooting while our guests were here...
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