Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stagnant fight for Cuba's provinces began to look like a war. All week long, Rebel Leader Fidel Castro's radio blared victory, reported forces sweeping through town after town in Oriente and Las Villas provinces, routing small garrisons, setting up rebels as "civil authorities." The excited trumpeting was probably overdone. But there was little question that the rebels were on the move, or that Dictator Fulgencio Batista's army was retreating to defensive ground in Cuba's big cities...
...losers in the spreading war are Cuba's people. In Oriente the civil war moved the Roman Catholic Church to issue its own sad communique last week. Said Santiago Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes: "We have entered a new and horrible phase-hunger produced by war. Christian hearts cannot be unmoved by the plight of nearly all our towns and villages, filling with victims of hunger and caught in the path of death...
HAVANA, Jan. 4--Rebel leader Fidel Castro tonight called off the general strike that has paralyzed Cuba since his bearded rebels took over from Fulgencio Batista's dicatorship...
Bundy and Fulgencio Batista after months of planning establish a beachhead in Cuba. An unfortunate geographical error lands their troops just north of the Havana Hilton. A jubilant mob welcomes them as the first tourists to arrive in Cuba since January. July 26, the anniversary of the Castro movement, Bundy is appointed Provisional President. He announces the appointment of Henry A. Kissinger as Defense Minister. The Pope announces the appointment of 23 new Cardinals. "It's a nice round number," he comments...
Charles Ravenel announces that due to fines imposed on A.D. club members for failure to attend functions he will be failure to attend functions he will be unable to participate in Varsity games. Kissinger returns from Cuba to become Harvard's defense coach. The Glenn L. Martin Co. announces the successful launching of a seven-pound Vanguard satellite which goes into orbit around Sputnik...