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DIED. Haydeé Santamaria Cuadrado, 53, one of two women who took part in the July 26,1953, attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba that launched Fidel Castro's revolution; by her own hand; in Havana. She survived seven months of imprisonment after the abortive raid and eventually joined Castro's guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra until their victory...
Healing Powers. Franco frequently became quite lucid, occasionally chatting with his family and even discussing with Premier Carlos Arias Navarro the lineup of military forces that might confront each other in the Spanish Sahara. At one point the Archbishop of Zaragoza, Pedro Cantero Cuadrado, spread across Franco's bed the gold-embroidered cloak that usually adorns the wooden statue of the Virgin Mary in Zaragoza's Basilica of Our Lady of Pilar. As the archbishop described it, the dictator opened his eyes, wept and kissed the cape-which is reputed to have healing powers...
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