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...Barbados, 166 sq. mi. of sugar cane jampacked with 228,000 people, a population of 1,475 to the square mile. Led by stolid, dour Prime Minister Grantley Adams, 58, a onetime Socialist militant who softened in office. Barbados is the loyal "little Britain" of the islands...
...dictator's army is well equipped, it so far has been ineffectual against the kind of "internal conflict" that has plagued the island for nearly three months. Bomb-bursts terrorize Havana almost nightly; the explosions often knock down power poles and black out parts of the city. Sugar cane fields are put to the torch with regularity. And in southeastern Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra mountains, a band of wily, determined rebels is getting larger...
Gorging himself contentedly on fat food offerings from the poverty-ridden villagers, Raghubaranand repaid the kindness with a never-ending stream of spiritual advice, giving his time generously in private audiences to the village women when their husbands were off at work in the cane fields. He even went so far as to honor the village by singling out one robustious young virgin as worthy of sharing a god's bed. But if the godly sadhu could be generous with his favors, he could also be terrible in vengeance. When one old villager dared doubt his authenticity. Raghubaranand simply...
...district headquarters some 40 miles away. Police Chief Prakash Chander Mull rounded up his deputies, 250 well-armed cops, and a magistrate (the only official with authority to give the order to fire on a crowd), loaded them into trucks and headed for Mokhimpur. Taking cover in the cane fields, they fixed bayonets and prepared to charge the still-singing villagers. Suddenly the dancing stopped, a shot rang out from the village, the police answered with another, and Sadhu Raghubaranand fell to the ground, his shoulder grazed. Frightened and screaming, the villagers scattered. Some dashed into a hut and bolted...
...under Rebel Leader Fidel Castro) were still fighting from hideouts in the Sierra Maestra range, four small army garrisons were attacked. In the resulting fighting, 28 soldiers and insurgents were reported killed. And every day saboteurs up and down the island set new fires in fields of ripened sugar cane, Cuba's main source of income...