Word: batista
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HAVANA, Cuba, March 13--Armed rebel forces invaded the palace home of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista today and 20 persons were reported killed in a battle inside the palace...
Reports tonight said group of student rebels broke into the palace past the guards and reached the first floor, where Batista has his offices...
CUBA Rebel Report Deep in a dripping mountaintop forest, two men huddled on the ground at sunup one day last week, talking in guarded whispers. One of the men was Fidel Castro, 30, the strapping, bearded leader of the never-say-die band of anti-Batista rebels who strike and run from hideouts in eastern Cuba's Sierra Maestra range (TIME, Feb. 25 et ante). The other was Herbert Matthews, 57, veteran war reporter (Ethiopia, Spain, Italy) of the New York Times. In a series of three articles this week, Herb Matthews, now a Times editorial writer, told...
...carrying a sniper's rifle with a telescopic sight, Castro seemed idolized by his men. Asked how he got supplies, Castro flashed a stack of pesos a foot high, hinted that he had plenty more. The morale of the rebels, whose number Castro kept to himself, seemed high. Batista's troops "never know where we are, but we always know where they are," Castro said. "We can pick them off at a thousand yards with these guns...
...Batista is "generally unpopular." <| "There is more corruption than ever, and this is saying a great deal in Cuba." <| "Highly respected citizens" all over Cuba have joined in a civil resistance movement against dictatorship and corruption, are supporting Castro. "An internal struggle is now taking place that is more than an effort by the outs to get in." Batista, with the support of high military officers, still "has the upper hand, and with any luck he can hang on until his term ends in February...