Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fidel Castro has never been a swinger. Nightclubs, booze, fancy food, fast crowds-he shunned them all like a capitalist plague, and frowned on any of his lieutenants who failed to do the same. Last week Castro suddenly did more than frown. He announced the arrest of at least 20 "playboy officials" who were giving more of their time to the cocktail circuit than to Communism. Among them: Major Efigenio Al-meijeiras, a member of the party's Central Committee, Castro's vice minister of the armed forces, and the military's second in command-after Fidel...
...Castro accused Almeijeiras of having "close relations with antisocial elements, vagabonds, bums and corrupt people," and more specifically, with Rolando Cubela, another Havana man about town sent up for 25 years this month for plotting Castro's assassination (TIME, March 18). Castro absolved Almeijeiras of any guilt in the plot, but claimed that he demonstrated "the same instability of character and lack of seriousness as Cubela...
...trial last week in Havana's grim La Cabaña fortress was Rolando Cubela Secades, 33, Fidel Castro's former chief student organizer and gun-slinging bullyboy for the University of Havana. His crime: plotting to assassinate Castro, by means of a high-range rifle with a telescopic sight imported from Spain...
...reason? From exiles trickling through to Miami came word that students at Cubela's old stomping ground, the University of Havana, had staged an angry demonstration, with a black-draped coffin, signs reading, "If Cubela dies, so do you, Fidel!" and an ancient horse-in jeering reference to Castro's nickname, el Caballo (the horse...
...Journal-American, a minister's son who liked to say that "cartoonists are just frustrated preachers," proved his point with such pieces as his 1957 sketch of Uncle Sam as Little Rock's "New Cop on the Beat" and other drawings aimed at foes from Klansmen to Castro; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...