Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Foreign Minister Raul Roa shouted: "The invasion can occur within the next few hours." U.S. Delegate James Barco, passing over the fact that Castro had just grabbed another 164 U.S. firms, worth approximately $250 million, hastened to set him straight. "The U.S. has no plans or intentions to attack Cuba. Cuba need have no fear." The U.S. even took the unusual step of voting to bypass the OAS and discuss the Cuban charges of aggression in the U.N. itself...
...interesting word in the Castro vocabulary last week was "auto-provocation." To the U.S.. it sounded as if he might be getting ready to stage an incident, possibly at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo. Time and again he has raged against the base, said he would not attack it, then added: "But who doubts the base is capable of planning an auto-provocation...
...State Department does not expect a serious attack on Guantanamo. But last week it called in reporters to make it clear all around that if Castro strikes, the U.S. will repulse him. Though Guantánamo itself is no longer vital to defense, its possession is important to U.S. treaty rights around the world. The Navy has plans to deal with every contingency, from an assault in force to sniping from the hills. If there is a march on the gates by women and children, the Navy will disperse them without guns; if Castro cuts off the water supply...
Nearly three out of four Americans suffer from some degree of artery disease, but those who finally learn of their illness usually do so the hard way-with a heart attack or a stroke. And because doctors have been unable to look into the body and watch the small coronary arteries work, they have also been unable to pinpoint blockages and accurately determine the extent of artery disease...
...Explains Sones: "If the pressure starts to flatten out, we know the tip has obstructed the artery or one of its branches. Then we have from ten to 30 seconds to get it out before the heart is starved for blood and the patient has a heart attack." The mortality rate so far: two deaths in 526 examinations...