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Others felt the real sting of political repression. Ordinary citizens are forced to play informer, Roger Arencibia, 27, a Havana dental assistant, said resentfully. "My brother-in-law was laid off from his factory and could not get another job," said Caridad Carrodeguas, a bookkeeper from Batabanó. "The factory managers want good revolutionaries. You can't complain, you can't speak out against anything openly...
...invaders set sail at dawn one day in the 55-ft. yacht Mayari from Batabanó, a fishing village on Cuba's south coast. Three were drowned upon landing at Nombre de Dios, including one leader who preached "Never lay down your gun" so convincingly that he could not let go of his as it dragged him down. The remaining invaders moved into nearby Nombre de Dios in such manly fashion that three love affairs quickly blossomed. When he was asked to marry the three couples, the village priest refused: "These hurried romances need a cooling-off period...
...early dawn a detachment of Cuban soldiers surrounded a farmhouse near the sponge-fishing port of Batabanó. Under a heap of palm leaves, in slacks and sport shirt, they found quaking ex-Colonel José Pedraza, their former Chief of Staff, until recently in exile. They took him and five civilians caught with him to the military prison in ancient Cabanas Fortress across the harbor from Havana. So ended last week a revolution that never took place...
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