Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manuel Urrutia. With an expert and cynical maneuver, Strongman Castro set a mob on the Presidential Palace, then went on television to denounce Urrutia as a "traitor." Not since the time in the 1930s when Dictator Fulgencio Batista went through five puppets in two years had a President of Cuba been treated with such contempt...
Urrutia of late had been trying to act like a President. He vetoed some minor Castro decrees, held up others. He favored going slow with land reform. But to Castro, his most maddening act was his denunciation of Cuba's Communists as "criminals" just when Castro was making common cause with the Reds in a bitter tirade against a committee of the U.S. Senate...
...Fidel, Himself." The U.S. link to the Cuba furor was the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, chaired by Mississippi's Senator James Eastland. Eastland's witness was Major Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, former head of Castro's air force, who says he was fired for fighting Communist influence in the armed forces (TIME, July 13). Cuba's No. 1 Communist, Díaz Lanz charged, "is Fidel himself." He added that on a trip to Venezuela, he saw Castro go into a hotel bathroom for a private, two-hour talk with Venezuelan Communist Boss Gustavo Machado. Castro...
...President of Cuba had already been picked that afternoon at a secret meeting in Havana's Camp Liberty, with no civilian ministers present. Castro and the band of leftists and Communist-liners who hold down all of the top army jobs vetoed two leading choices as too pro-U.S., voted to hand the presidency to Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, 40, an obscure country lawyer. In his old job as Minister of Revolutionary Laws, Dorticós had the humble job of drafting decrees. In his new job (he cut the salary to $2,500 a month...
...Down Cuba's 937-mile Central Highway six months ago, Fidel Castro rolled in triumph; presumably to restore the country's democracy and peace. Retracing the rebels' victorious tank treads last week, TIME Correspondent Bruce Henderson found a country tense and bitterly divided. His report...