Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuba's fanatic, poorly armed rebels last week tried to smash President Fulgencio Batista with the ultimate weapon of civilian revolutions: the general strike. But Batista, a tough, wilier strongman than such fallen dictators as Argentina's Perón or Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez, saw the blow coming, prepared well, warded it off with hardly a bruise...
...city while his cops proceeded to make their supremacy complete. When a patrol car radioed that it had clashed with rebels and had "a dead man and a prisoner," the dispatcher ordered: "Shoot him." At midafternoon, cops burst into a boardinghouse, grabbed three young men who were leaders of Cuba's lay Catholic Action movement, which sympathizes with Castro. Two hours later their stripped, tortured and bullet-torn bodies were turned over to relatives. Total dead...
...head of Fidel Castro." But though he must face a nagging stalemate, in winning last week's round Batista cost the rebels heavily in dynamism and morale. A new general-strike attempt will be harder to mount than the foiled try-particularly bucking the prosperity of Cuba's current $2 billion-a-year national income. And Castro, never well armed, is suffering so badly from shortage of guns and ammunition that last week he denounced his principal backer, rich ex-President Carlos Prio, for "living in luxury in Miami" while the rebels eat roots and wait in vain...
...Cuba newsmen were getting a warm welcome-provided they did not go near the revolution. In Havana beaming President Fulgencio Batista entertained 26 newsman at his 100-acre estate, served them daiquiris and charm, fondled kittens for photographers. But at the very moment Batista was being nice to some newsmen in Havana, his soldiers were throwing others into jail in strife-torn Santiago de Cuba. There, soon after arrival, the Chicago Sun-Times's Ray Brennan, NEA's Ward Cannel and Las Vegas TV Reporter Alan Jarlson were herded into a filthy jail and held incommunicado for nearly...
...other hand, Batista intends to cling to power and Rivero turns out to be just a puppet, December will no doubt see an intensification of violence in Cuba. The Cuban people have adopted an attitude of wait-and-see; it is becoming apparent that Castro should have done the same. Rigged elections are an excellent occasion for a popular uprising. If Batista tampers with the November vote, the Cubans may be roused from their apathy--as the Venezuelans were several months ago--into an active revolt that will end Batista's regime...