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...Cabanas, 40 miles to the west, Captain Clodomiro Miranda Mendiela, a rebel veteran, defected with 200 soldiers. Castro rushed up 2,000 men and heavy mortars, after 48 hours captured wounded Captain Miranda with ten men. ¶Near Cienfuegos, five minutes after a Cubana Airlines DC-3 took off northward to Havana, 140 miles away, four men and two women passengers produced guns and tried to force the plane to Miami. The ship crash-landed, and the dash to freedom ended. A day later, after a kangaroo trial, the four men were sentenced to die. ¶In Las Villas province...
Even the leave-taking turned into a Red rally. Learning that his Cubana Airlines Britannia had been impounded in New York by a U.S. court order,* Castro requested that Khrushchev lend him a Soviet plane. Promptly a Soviet Il-18 turboprop turned up. Beaming, Castro read newsmen another homily: "The U.S. takes away our plane and the Soviets give us a plane. The Soviets are our friends." A newsman asked if his government was Communist and Castro snorted: "You've got Communism on your mind. Everybody who is not like Chiang Kai-shek or Franco or Adenauer...
...weeks, writs impounding three planes flown to the U.S. were served on the government-controlled Cubana Airlines. A Miami advertising agency, trying to collect an unpaid $285,000 bill for tourist advertising, obtained two of the writs; the third was obtained by a Cubana stockholder in Florida concerned over the Castro government's progressive nationalization of the line's assets. Actually planes flying to the U.N. on government business are entitled to diplomatic immunity, and the U.S. State Department tried to advise Cubana how to void the writs, but the company ignored the advice...
...trip to Fidel Castro's Cuba, where a visitor can see real revolution in action while enjoying the uncrowded comforts of a winter resort. The invitation usually comes from an overseas official of Castro's July 26 movement, who arrives bearing a free, first-class ticket on Cubana...
With a $3,000,000 Cubana airlines jet-prop Britannia at his disposal, Prime Minister Fidel Castro was the Western Hemisphere's happiest tourist last week, speeding from Montreal to Houston to Brasilia to Buenos Aires. "This one day I spent in Montreal," said Castro, "has impressed me more than all the time I spent in the U.S. There is a Latin atmosphere." In Houston, he accepted a blue-blooded quarter horse, gave permission to Oilman Frank Waters to make a movie about the revolution. "To do justice to a story so powerful," said Waters, "I have hired...