PANAMA: End of an Invasion

The girls of the village of Nombre de Dios (Name of God) strolled toward the azure Caribbean one day last week, arm in arm with the Cuban invaders who had come to Panama to overthrow the democratic government of President Ernesto de la Guardia. As the landing craft taking them off to jail in Panama City backed off the beach, Expedition Commander Cesar Vega and his 83 men (plus a 24-year-old Cuban girl) broke into a song that Castro's rebels used to sing in Cuba's Sierra Maestra. The girls of Nombre de

Dios wept as the invaders sailed away.

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