Word: militiamen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pages. Along its lower reaches, the Colorado forms the boundary between California and Arizona, and since the early 1920s the two states have been quarreling over the division of the waters. The dispute almost came to Wild West gunplay in 1934, when the Governor of Arizona sent state militiamen up the river on a scow to halt work on a dam that was being constructed to divert water to Los Angeles. Three times in the 1930s, Arizona unsuccessfully brought suit against California in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1952 Arizona sued again. The Supreme Court assigned Simon H. Rifkind...
Arbitrary executions, carried out by laughing, wisecracking militiamen deliberately within earshot of the crowded cells, are a favorite instrument of terror. Three firing-squad walls at La Cabaña are in use at peak periods, and, according to an ex-soldier, "the executions were done practically pursuing the condemned man with shots . . . Many times, one wounded in a leg would try to escape. Then he would have to be killed like an animal. That's the way it was at La Caba...
...brother Harry posed for pistol-packing pictures. Barbot claimed that he was responsible for the recent killing of three guards and the attempted kidnaping of Duvalier's two children; since then, his men have fought half a dozen bloody skirmishes with Duvalier's militiamen. "I have many friends who say they are with Duvalier now," he said, "but inside they are with Barbot." If he does topple Duvalier, Barbot promises free elections within six months. But then he, too, wants to be President, and if the people insist, he will run in the elections...
...with bamboo fences, barbed wire and armed militiamen to keep the predatory Viet Cong from exacting food and manpower from a helpless peasantry. Already 8,000,000 villagers-59% of South Viet Nam's population-are living in the 6,000 hamlets that have so far been completed. Problem with Peasants. Though the government admits that fewer than one-third of the hamlets are defensible against a determined onslaught, the Reds are reluctant to attack the villages for fear of antagonizing the people. In some areas, thanks to higher standards of living in the hamlets, peasants...
...opening rally in a "Month of National Gratefulness to Duvalier," and the speaker was a henchman of Haiti's Dictator. Françpois Duvalier himself was on hand, surrounded by helmeted palace guards and blue-denimed militiamen. He had given orders for his men to explain to Haitians just what would happen in their tiny Caribbean Negro republic if anyone should try to topple "Papa...