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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less generously, the rebels shot two Cuban "counterrevolutionaries" one dawn last week in the first executions since June by the firing squads that have put 557 Cubans to death this year.
But while Peru's Prado drew cheers, his navy brass was quietly concluding a deal to buy two cruisers from Britain for $4,000,000. President Jorge Alessandri of neighboring Chile, who earlier had assailed the "ruinous competition" in weapons, observed that "it is not a logical attitude to...
The pinch is that from this position of strength the military demands disproportionately costly and often unsuitable tools for the job. Brazil has spent $2 billion on its armed forces in the past six years v. $1.6 billion for all public works and development programs. The refurbished carrier Minas Gerais...
Waste and graft are high. After Peru contracted to buy four submarines from the U.S.'s General Dynamics Corp, word leaked out that the nephew of the navy minister who ordered the subs stood to collect a $300,000 "commission." The latest scandal brewing is in Cuba, where Fidel...
A man who knows the Atlantic almost as well as his own washbowl. Grandpa Max Conrad, 57, who has crossed that ocean 56 times on solo flights in light aircraft, set down at Washington's Army and Navy Club to get a yard-high, gold-plated trophy honoring two...