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Word: calvi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall! As the studio audience chanted "to the wall," the announcer asked viewers to telephone immediately if they recognized any criminals among the men. One woman rushed forward to identify Prisoner RamÓn Calviño as a Batista torturer (he was, with 15 murders on his record, acknowledged the exiles), asked to be on the firing squad that executes him. A few brave men defied their inquisitors. Carlos Varona, 21, the son of Exile Leader Antonio Varona, and a paratrooper in the rebel army, coolly asked his jeering captors: "If you have so many people on your side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Castro's Triumph | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

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