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Prelude to Invasion? As the news hit the wires, José Miró Cardona, head of the exile Revolutionary Council in Manhattan, proclaimed the attack a last salute to Fidel Castro by defecting members of the Cuban Air Force. "Before flying their planes towards freedom, these true revolutionaries attempted to destroy as many Castro military planes as possible." The well-coordinated, professionally executed mission was known to the council beforehand, said Miró Cardona. "We have been in contact with, and have encouraged these brave pilots." He added that "military security" prevented further explanation...
Chosen to head the revolutionary government: José Miró Cardona, 58, a respected Havana lawyer, whose credentials are as good in Cuba as they are in the United States. Miró Cardona was Fidel Castro's first Prime Minister but quit in anger and disgust after 39 days. Never much of a politician, Miró Cardona leads no movement of his own and promises to serve only until elections, for which he will not be a candidate. When and if the council manages to win a piece of Cuban soil, Provisional President Miró Cardona will move...
Forty full years passed before any guards were posted to protect what was left of the monastery. The monks returned at last, in 1940, found most of its greatest treasures, such as the tomb of Count Folch of Cardona's family with its 16th century bas-relief (opposite), had been mutilated. A superb object of contemplation even now, the relief symbolizes life after death through the story of Jonah and the whale. Jonah is shown spewed up from the whale's belly onto the life-strewn shore...
Somewhat sooner than expected, Fidel Castro last week took over direct control of the Cuban government. Premier Jose Miro Cardona resigned, along with his Cabinet. Assuming the premiership. Castro quit as commander of the armed forces, giving that job to his ice-eyed brother Raul...
...inevitability about last week's changes, but their suddenness was caused by a moral crisis. The government was at loggerheads over Cuba's tourist-trapping casinos, closed since the fall of Batista. At first Fidel Castro opposed gambling on principle. Provisional President Urrutia, Premier Miro Cardona and the Cabinet backed him up. But Castro's stand on principle dissolved in the face of the rapidly falling foreign exchange (it is now possible to fire a .45 down any hall of the Havana Hilton without hitting even a mouse) and of the jobless and strike-minded workers...