Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuba's slow-motion rebellion begins its third year next week, a study in inertia but nonetheless a tense and tragic struggle that must end in a crashing showdown...
Scars of War. In the deadlock. Cuba increasingly shows the scars of civil war: food shortages, shots in the night, silent factories. Havana's flashy hotels echo emptily. Trains that used to go to Santiago now stop short at Santa Clara, in mid-island. Planes fly from heavily guarded terminals, the passengers frisked before they board...
...Piedra to head for Mexico. A fortnight ago it fell to Piedra, who is also a good amateur skin-diver, to dive to the sunken hull of a Cubana airlines Viscount that crashed and killed 17 of 20 passengers when rebel hijackers tried to force it to land near Cuba's Nipe Bay (TIME, Nov. 10). By last week, when Piedra took a Cubana DC-3 up from the little, bullet-stippled one-story airport in seaside Manzanillo, in the shadow of the rebel-held Sierra Maestra, hijacking was getting to be a bit of a bore. But Piedra...
...rebels said all 31 persons were turned over to Red Cross representatives in eastern Cuba and that they arrived safely in Santiago. The rebel announcement said the release was carried out despite a government breach of good faith during a cease-fire arranged for the safe return of the captives...
...Cuba was only going through the motions. Between them. Dictator Fulgencio Batista and Rebel Chief Fidel Castro had throttled all chances of democratic process in this week's presidential election. Cuba's Supreme Electoral Tribunal, sitting as arbiter of election disputes, is a Batista tool. Batista's cops are everywhere; his rubber-stamp Congress 13 times in 23 months has suspended the freedoms of speech, press and assembly -all requisites to honest electioneering. Newspapers, radio and TV are censored, and when one candidate called Batista a dictator, the station automatically censored...