Word: batista
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deep Surgery. When Castro was fighting Dictator Fulgencio Batista in Cuba's eastern mountains, he advertised his revolution's aims as a purge of governmental and social corruption and a restoration of justice and democracy. He has carried out the purge, effectively cutting off official corruption and cutting down on the once flagrant prostitution. He has curbed Cuba's feverish gambling by turning the government lottery into a savings institute and confining Havana's gaudy (but currently mostly empty) casinos to the relatively few tourists who brave the new regime's occasional, brusque clothing searches...
...somehow got the impression that your reviewer would have preferred a more "modern" locale for the story-perhaps Cuba just prior to the collapse of the Batista regime. I can just see the mountainside love scene. Jordan (Errol Flynn would be perfect in the role) leers at Maria and wheezes: "Baby, this really swings...
Under the glare of three floodlights, Marks marched former Batista Police Lieut. Eloy Contreras to a bullet-scarred wall, 36 feet from the firing squad. "Atención!" yelled Marks at 1:13 a.m. "Preparen . . . apunten . . . fuego!" After the volley, Marks stepped up to Contreras' writhing body, fired the coup de grâce with his .45 automatic-then had to shoot two more times before his man finally died. Guards took off Contreras' shoes, fingerprinted him, placed him in a plain wooden coffin, and loaded him aboard a hearse for delivery to waiting relatives...
...slander" Cuba. "Never has such an intense and violent campaign of discredit against Cuba been waged throughout the Americas. We must deprive the enemy of his principal weapon of attack." When would "the proceedings" end? Not, apparently, last week. Before Castro's firing squads went another 28 Batista men, bringing the grand total to 451. Among the new dead: the first judge, Arístides Pérez Andreu, president of Batista's Pinar del Rio Urgency Tribunal...
...Pushed through a $5,442,000 public-works program to build highways, lay out public beaches and build 15 villages in Oriente province, where he started his rebellion against Batista...