Word: baracoa
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...Miami and Manhattan, spokesmen for Miró Cardona's council announced fighting at Baracoa, Santa Clara and Pinar del Río. Rumors raced across the island that Brother Raül Castro had been captured in Oriente province. Reports of defections among navy and militia units were reinforced by a fragmentary radio call from a naval base east of Havana that there were only eight men left-all the rest had "walked away...
More than mere talk was involved in an incident last week, six miles at sea north of the Oriente coast, when a Cuban gunboat drew alongside the 96-ton American cable-repair schooner Western Union and ordered it into the Cuban port of Baracoa. Well outside Cuban territorial waters, the unprepossessing Western Union moved slowly to comply, while the skipper sent off a quick message that reached the Guantanamo Naval Base...
Within ten minutes, two swept-wing U.S. jets whooshed over, buzzed the Western Union at high speed, encouraging several Cuban 6-26 light bombers in the area to withdraw. Four hours later, as the Western Union was half a mile off Baracoa, a U.S. destroyer arrived, openly blinker signaled the Western Union an offer of full protection. Minutes passed, and then the Cubans approached the schooner, shouting "Key West." The Western Union eased off for home. The tight moment spelled a clear message: to rescue the Western Union, the U.S. was prepared to use force...
...Castro has moved all peasants out of the area to deny the rebels a local food source. Establishing three concentric rings of militiamen around the rebel area, he has settled down to starve his enemies out. In an attempted diversionary move, some 200 rebels rose around Baracoa, in the eastern end of the island, but still Castro maintains his pressure on the Escambray...
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