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...former U.S. naval pilot, walked out of La Cabana fortress overlooking Havana at dawn, nearly two hours after the three-man tribunal had declared him guilty of attempting to kill Castro, the rebel chieftain who is now Cuba's premier...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dulles Returns to Army Hospital For Further Medical Treatment; Cubans Suspend Nye's Sentence | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...Filipinos, Chieftain Lapu Lapu became a hero when in 1521 he killed Portugal's pioneer World Girdler Ferdinand Magellan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Welcome Aboard | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...interested in power!" Yet this rebel chieftain lives by and thrives on just that. This is history repeating itself. Let us not look for the best in this man but be prepared for the worst. Castro promises much, but so did Batista...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...leads from her radio, which blares steadily in competition with a tape recorder, a television set, and a green parrot, all in the same room. Last week, as Fidel Castro's triumphant procession passed within view of her office, she emerged for her first look at the rebel chieftain. Castro had already paid his respects to her; last November he sent a runner 600 miles with a mountain orchid for the Timeswoman in Havana. Placid and permanent in Cuba's impermanent atmosphere, R. Hart Phillips will be on good terms with Castro's regime. And, chances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Their Man in Havana | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 14--The reported toll of revolutionary war crimes executions soared today to 180. Rebel chieftain Fidel Castro declared they will continue regardless of world opinion...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Eisenhower Admits Soviets Ahead In Some Phases of Missile Race | 1/15/1959 | See Source »

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