Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorite of Iron Curtain visitors-and left flames licking from third-floor windows. Farther east along the shore, a second raiding group blasted away at a police station, then at a group of soldiers, who scrambled for cover. To the west, the other boat raked the seaside home of Castro's Puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, drawing erratic rifle fire from nearby guards. By the time the attackers turned for home, the confusion was such that antiaircraft guns were pumping shells into the sky as searchlights crisscrossed futilely for enemy planes...
...embarrassing news reached Castro atop Pico Turquino, a 6,560-ft. mountain in the Sierra Maestra, where he started his revolution nine years ago. He was there, improbably enough, to award diplomas to 426 medical students, climaxing nearly a week of hoopla calculated to revive his people's flagging "revolutionary fervor." For four days and nights, students and friends had hiked up the mountain with the bearded dictator.* At one point during the trek, Castro called for helicopter delivery of 1,000 quarts of ice cream for his weary followers. Tons of food, TV cameras and electrical generating equipment...
...Exile Caper. On TV from Pico Turquino next day, Castro predictably blamed the waterfront raid on "the CIA, which has perpetrated all types of misdeeds and crimes against this country." In reply, three exile groups in Miami quickly admitted that they had pulled off the caper "to show that Castro is vulnerable." The boats, according to exiles, had not come from Florida but from a "secret base" outside U.S. jurisdiction. There seemed little doubt on that score. For over a year, the U.S. has tried to restrain anti-Castroites from such exciting but basically pointless adventures.†The surveillance...
...week's end Castro still seemed as eager to get rid of his disaffected citizens as they were to get out. Three charter boats were evacuating 2,000 refugees stranded at the port of Camarioca since the small-boat exodus was cut off three weeks ago, and the word was that the airlift would begin...
...Among those prominently present: Aleida Guevara, wife-or possibly widow-of erstwhile Castro No. 2 man Che Guevara, who disappeared, leaving his family "in the care of the state." † Including an attempt last week by a 16-year-old Texas high-school student named Thomas Robinson to hijack a National Airlines DC-8 jetliner bound from New Orleans to Melbourne, Fla., with 84 passengers, including Christopher Kraft, flight director for NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston. Muttering that he wanted to go to Cuba to protest Castro's political prisoners, Robinson pulled two pistols, fired several...