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...cabin; an explosion split the night. The launch drew up beside a second ship, the 7,O43-ton British freighter Newlane, and machine guns blazed again, riddling the funnel and crew quarters. The boat gunned its engines for a final firing pass at the Cuban coastal freighter San Blas, then high-tailed out to sea pursued by Castro helicopters...
Speakers of Garbage. Singling out Aníbal Escalante, 53, third-ranking Cuban Red after Party Boss Blas Roca and Strategist Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, Castro launched a violent attack. Escalante and other party men like him were working to undermine the revolution by setting up underground cells to seize control of all revolutionary institutions. Already the old guerrilla fighters were being shunted aside by party functionaries. "Did they think they won the revolution in a raffle?" cried Castro. The "boastfulness" of the old Communist militants and the belief that those who do not belong to them...
...BLAS ROCA (real name, Francisco Calderio), 53, Secretary General of the Communist Party and usually regarded as the No. 1 Communist in Cuba. The son of a Manzanillo shoe-factory worker. Roca became secretary general of the Cuban Communist Party in 1934, a post that he has held ever since. In 1938, at a secret meeting with Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Roca agreed to a Batista-Communist alliance (assuring legality for the party in return for organizing a pro-Batista labor movement) that lasted until 1954 when Batista bowed to U.S. pressure and outlawed the party. Nevertheless, Roca managed to hold...
...recent Communist Party Congress in Moscow, old-line Cuban Communist Blas Roca "resolutely supported" Khrushchev's blast at Albania, grinned while Fellow Delegate Rita Diaz ran down the aisle in her militiawoman's regalia, presented Khrushchev with a Cuban flag. Yet the same issue of the Cuban government organ Revolución that plastered Khrushchev's attack across more than two pages also printed Peking Delegate Chou En-lai's rejoinder in full...
...Washington seemed to love being pushed around by Preminger. Even Preminger was surprised. "I vud haf thought," mused he last week, "zat Fos-inkton vud haf been more blas...