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Arriving in Miami, a Cuban underground agent code-named "Lucas" called for more arms and bombs to step up sabotage against Fidel Castro's regime. Carlos Prio Socarrás, a onetime President of Cuba, talked of forming a government in exile. José Miró Cardona, head of the ill-starred Cuban Revolutionary Council, was still shuttling back and forth to Washington, conferring with Kennedy aides. But for all the anti-Castro shadowboxing, the ordinary Cuban exile is becoming resigned to the idea that Castro, may be around a while longer. By last week, most of the approximately...
...Cuban exiles were also feeling the effects of the shift. The Revolutionary Council of José Miró Cardona, which figureheaded the U.S.-managed Bay of Pigs invasion, was fragmenting in despair. U.S. Government agents disbanded rebel groups clustered around Miami, started sending exiles chafing in idleness off to jobs in distant states. The Justice Department turned an unsympathetic eye on a 100-man band of international "commandos" melodramatically titled "the Intercontinental Penetration Force.'' Led by a hulking (6 ft. 7 in.), bearded American ex-marine who calls himself Jerry Patrick, the force practices parachute jumping, calls itself...
...biggest seller of all was the Jackie Kennedy cover at inauguration time. Not far behind were the pre-election Nixon and Kennedy covers. the inaugural issue, and the detailed report on the Cuban disaster, with Exile Leader Miró Cardona on the cover...
Worried about the widespread influence of the Harvard name, Cardona suggested that Plank attempt to circulate a counter-petition. Plank declined, reminding Cardona that the faculty members who signed the first petition did not represent the entire faculty, but telling him that few other faculty members were likely to sign a statement of any sort...
Signed by Cardona, Dr. Manuel de Varona, Dr. Antonio Maceo, Dr. Justo Carillo, Manuel Ray, and Carlos Havevia, the statement asserted that "you, the illustrious professors of Harvard, steeped in learning, should have explored the statistical facts in this situation before making such an irresponsible statement...