Word: batista
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After having amused its breakfast table readers with a bit of a jest at the expense of Dr. Castro's scattered forces, the Times waxed serious. Having already praised Batista's government for its benevolent despotism, it called the insurgent plot "forlorn and suicidal." Thoroughly enjoying itself, in a rare burst of poetry the Times added: "More sophisticated nations see little rhyme or reason for these...
...Havana, Correspondent Bruce Henderson got a vivid account of Dictator Fulgencio Batista's final banquet and ignominious flight, spent four days and sleepless nights putting together a comprehensive report on how and why he fell. For an analysis of what happened in Cuba, and what may happen now, see THE HEMISPHERE...
...prostitution and a leaky public till. In disgust and shame, a nervy band of rural guerrillas, aided by angry Havana professional men (plus opportunists with assorted motives), started a bloody civil war that cost more than $100 million and took 8,000 lives. Last week they smashed General Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship...
...Batista's end came on New Year's Eve. As he and his fellow crooks rode in a line of black Cadillacs to the army's Camp Columbia, outside Havana, for the usual New Year's Eve dinner, they did not smile. They knew that the jig, as well as the year, was up. "For the salvation of the republic," announced General Eulogio Cantillo at the end of a gloomy meal, "the military forces have decided that it is necessary for General Batista to withdraw from power...
...record, Batista protested: "I will not leave without handing over power." A suitable stand-in President was hastily found. Then Batista and his bemedaled generals and Cabinet ministers abandoned manners and moved to airplanes drawn up at Camp Columbia field. The regime and its followers thereupon bugged out, some 500 strong, as fast as planes and ships would bear them...