Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alexander, Gustav O.; Borkenhagen, David M.; Boulris, Chester J.; Cappiello, David L.; Crosby, Robert S.; Cullen, Albert F., Jr.; Dashen, Roger F.; David, Robert T.; Eliades, Peter G.; Evarts, Prescott, Jr.; Framke, Carl A. III (Captain); Garrison, John R.; Halaby, Samuel, Jr.; Hauge Christopher W.; Hughes, Donald E.; Kaltreider, Henry B.; Keohane, Harold J.; King William B.; Kirk, Paul G., Jr.; Leamy, Charles D.; Marmor, Theodore R.; McDonald, Romeo M.; Pohlig, Bradley R.; Robbins, Theodore B.; Righter, John F.; Rhodes, C.; Sakowitz, Robert T.; Soderberg, Jon R.; Vultaggio, Phillip A.; Waterman, George H. III; Walker, Chauncey L.; Barber, John...
Even for hot-tempered Cuba, 1956 has been a violent year. In October the two top policemen of the country were shot dead (and ten suspects mowed down by the cops). Earlier, a plan to assassinate President Fulgencio Batista was nipped, a provincial garrison was assaulted (eleven dead), an army plot was unmasked and 13 officers jailed. But what was supposed to be the main uprising was still to come. Last week it began...
...backlands battles were even dead lier because they pitted government troops and supporters against a tough garrison commander and some soldiers still loyal to longtime (1933-48) Dictator Tiburcio ("Bucho") Carias, whose Nationalist Party also opposes Lozano. Ten were killed. Lesser violence influenced the vote in other places. Voters in one village reported that police forced them at gunpoint to chew up and swallow their Liberal ballots, then forced them to vote for the government's National Union Party (P.U.N...
Moreover, Garrison charged the Dickeys with unlicenced indulgence in liquors, and the unlicenced possession of a bar. Immediate action was a Garrison necessity...
Eliot's position was far, however, from the-Dickey-boys-will-be-amusing-won't-they, approach. In theory he wanted exactly what Garrison advised when he poetically entreated the President to "Ring in nobler modes of life with sweeter manners, nobler laws...