Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particularly to the U.S. Air Force, which is building a network of underground Atlas and Titan rocket-launching sites in the arid inland wastes of New Mexico, South Dakota and Oklahoma. In these areas available water is apt to be brackish, highly contaminated with minerals and salts that make it unpleasant and harmful for men and missiles alike. In addition to satisfying the need of parched humans, the bases must also slake the huge thirst of the rocket complex: thousands of gallons of water are needed to cool intricate machinery and to air-condition control rooms...
...father were jailed, Minerva briefly, her father for two years before he was released -to die 15 days later of a combination of malnutrition, beatings and general misuse. The sisters all married anti-Trujillo husbands-a lawyer, an engineer, a farmer. In 1957 the three couples began organizing an underground opposition to the Dictator among the Dominican Republic's middle and professional classes; after the failure of a Cuba-based airborne invasion in 1959, the underground movement took as its name the date of the failure-the 14th of June. Last January, as the 14th of June gathered strength...
There was, of course, no hint of foul play in the reports from Trujilloland. But the terrible deaths of the three sisters and their driver-who presumably was considered expendable-would be something for the 14th of June underground to think about...
...Democratic Revolutionary Front, a five-group coalition coordinated by ex-Premier Manuel ("Tony") Varona, 51, has a big brick building and the best financing; the Revolutionary Movement of the People (M.R.P.), headed by Engineer Manuel Ray, 37, has less money but is believed to operate the most effective underground inside Cuba. Both make only the smallest dent in the mass of jobless, moneyless Cubans...
...Living Underground. The next 13 years Haya spent in prison or underground. In 1945, then (and now) President Manuel Prado, a banker, legalized APRA, but under a new name. Out of hiding, Haya spoke before 175,000: "We aspire to create an authentic social justice, not one that comes from Moscow." Yet once again, when an APRA-hatmg newspaper editor was murdered, the aristocracy threw out the coalition regime that APRA had helped elect (but in which it did not have a commanding voice) and forced the party back underground. Haya spent five years as a refugee in the Colombian...