Word: dictatorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro was celebrating July 26, the anniversary of the day six years ago that he fired a 12-gauge shotgun to signal the start of an abortive attack on Dictator Fulgencio Batista's Moncada Barracks, in the eastern Cuban city of Santiago. He also needed a display of hero...
Londoners paid little note to the tall young woman in the striped dress, perhaps even less attention to her spectacled escort in the woolly sweater. But she was none other than Marina Mussolini, 19, granddaughter of Italy's late Fascist dictator. Marina was raised by her aunt, Countess Edda...
Disciplined Support. Plotters can count on no broad base for revolt. Peasants in the back country are apathetic or mildly progovernment. They eagerly inform on armed rebels for a $1,000-a-head reward. Workers in the towns-25% of the population-have a paternalistic labor code, a 20?-an...
Trujillo numbers 23,000 well-armed troops under his banners, plus 4,500 police and 1,000 mounted landowners who patrol the hills in pairs and call themselves the "Horsemen of the East." On paper, another outfit called the "AntiCommunist Foreign Legion" has 100,000 bureaucrats, ex-soldiers and foreign...
He found that nothing-or almost nothing-had changed since he first fell under Castro's spell. Said he: "The only difference I saw was that he's putting on weight around the middle." With other newsmen-including the Times's fulltime Cuba correspondent, Ruby Hart Phillips...