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...haunted place now. The planes are full on leaving, not entering. And among the least welcome guests are journalists; Caribbean Bureau Chief Sam Halper got into Cuba last winter, and tried to get in again recently to gather material for this week's cover story on Cuban Communist Bias Roca. But he could get no answer to his repeated requests for a visa. Instead. Halper had to confine himself to hopping around between Florida. Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, interviewing some of the 200,000 Cubans who have fled since Castro took over. He got a great deal...
...Bias Roca, 53, secretary-general of the party, for 26 years Moscow's most trustedly servile man in Havana, and now determined, if he gets the chance, to shape Cuba to the Kremlin's liking. Bias Roca is an orthodox Communist, cynical, opportunistic, dedicated. He believes in party discipline, and in a Cuba run by committees of technicians under the rigid control of a politburo of himself and his fellow professionals. By nature and by training he distrusts Castro's messianic brand of Marxism, his barefoot government-by-impulse, and his insatiable appetite for personal adulation. Because...
...Hour Is Coming. Bias Roca was ready with his apparatus, and with his made-in-Moscow policies. Now he offered both to Castro, who had defeated Batista but had not the vaguest idea how to run Cuba, or carry on his revolution...
...Fidel's brother. Then Castro went on TV to denounce the Reds and reassert his own leadership. He could not lambaste Roca (he was too strong), but he lashed out at Roca's lieutenant, Anibal Escalante, purged him from O.R.I, and drove him into exile in Czechoslovakia. Bias Roca himself dropped out of sight on an "inspection tour" of the provinces. Mos cow pondered two weeks, then in a Pravda editorial proclaimed that Castro had been justified...
Perhaps they are not yet prepared to inherit the mess. But another realignment of leadership seems inevitable, and much of the betting favors increased power for Bias Roca, Rodriguez & Co. For Cuba, the melancholy prospect is of continued hardship and little hope of freedom or improvement. In which case, men of cunning and mettle have the best chance of survival. Bias Roca, the Rock, figures on being firmly in place...