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Raul Roa, the director of the new diplomacy, is a nasty-tempered college professor on leave from Havana University, where he taught sociology and headed the faculty of social sciences. An oldtime leftist who organized fellow Havana University students against the dictatorships of Gerardo Machado and Fulgencio Batista, Raul -Roa once had a reputation as a freedom fighter as well as a free thinker and writer (17 books, mostly on politics). He suffered imprisonment and exile, during part of which he studied in two Manhattan graduate schools (Columbia University, the New School for Social Research) and took a U.S. fellowship...
Cuba's Reds like to make it appear that they always opposed ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista. In fact, the P.S.P. used to be an enthusiastic supporter of Batista. In return for its help in the 1940 election, Batista legalized the party, let it take control of Cuba's labor organizations, and brought Red Chiefs Juan Marinello and Carlos Rafael Rodríguez into his Cabinet. Back in power after his 1952 coup, Batista declared the party illegal but never cracked down hard on it. Not until five months before Batista fell did the Communists abandon their scornful attitude...
...Signed by Manuel Cardinal Arteaga, 80, Archbishop of Havana and Primate of Cuba; Santiago Archbishop Enrique Perez Serantes, who saved Castro's life in 1953 when he was fleeing the wrath of Dictator Fulgencio Batista after an abortive uprising; the Vatican-appointed Apostolic Administrator, Evelio Diaz; and six other bishops...
...York Daily News, was neither the first nor the best example of that vaguely journalistic genus, the gossipmonger. In his 23 years of reporting flack-work, rumor, trivia and hearsay, his wit was generally perishable, his essays at political thinking were often bottom drawer (Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista was "the most dynamic and forceful personality I ever interviewed"), his prophecies of events were mercifully forgotten, his items were usually inconsequential, though short enough to be mildly habit forming, like peanuts. But he was less given than his predecessors to malice in print, and perhaps more than any of the other...
Banker's Green. Through Castro, Che's revolution got to work. Firing-squad rifles cracked, and 553 Batista "war criminals" -most of them stalwarts of the old army -fell dead, after drumhead trials. Elections were put off indefinitely. There was a brief backslide when Castro, warmed by his welcome to the U.S. in April 1959, told Cuban newsmen traveling with him, "Don't worry. I will get rid of Che." He sent Che off on a world trip. The repudiation lasted only until the afterglow of Castro's U.S. trip died away. In November Fidel finally...