Word: batista
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From tip to tip, Cuba was scorched by revolutionary violence last week. Saboteurs burned a hotel, tobacco-curing sheds, warehouses with $2,500,000 worth of sugar. A train was derailed. And, in one explosive day, President Fulgencio Batista's troops fought two separate battles against rebel forces in the eastern province of Oriente just as a bomb blast in a main electric cable conduit paralyzed downtown Havana...
...edge of the rugged Sierra del Cristal, killed 16. Castro chose that moment for a double show of force. From his sanctuary in the high Sierra Maestra his 100-odd men swooped down on the army garrison of the tiny Oriente town of Uvero, killing eleven of Batista's soldiers and wounding 18. In Havana, Castro supporters who had tunneled under a street to a vital power cable set off 50 sticks of dynamite and crippled the capital for 57 hours...
Once again, Batista's staying power was in question. For a few months the strong-man was able to keep Castro's revolution from catching on. But Castro's open display of fight and organization was an outright challenge. From Havana, orders went out for an all-out attack on the rebels...
...General Batista, No, No, No!). But his customers will not let one old Kontiki song die, even though its subject, President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza of Nicaragua, is no longer in the news-and no longer around. Telling the story of Somoza's assassination, it begins...
...lectures by Crane Brinton, we have decided that mere belief in the principles of democracy will not suffice. So, we have pledged ourselves and our lives to a Harvard Brigade which will join the forces of Fidel Castro in his battle against the soldiers of the Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista...