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Slush Funds. Despite its sprawling role in the Cuban economy, INRA operates by Castro whim, slush-fund financing and capricious changes in personnel. Explains INRA's day-to-day boss, Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez, 36, who got the job because he fought hard in Castro's army, and is the author of a Marxist Geography of Cuba: "Accounting is no problem; everybody here is honest." Without benefit of ledgers, INRA has run through $70 million this year...
...people around and under the Fidel-Raúl-Che triumvirate give anti-Communists no cause for comfort. Antonio Núñez Jiménez, chief of INRA's land redistribution program, once led the campaign for a Communist candidate for Congress, later wrote a Marxist Geography of Cuba that is now a standard textbook in Cuban schools. Another force is Celia Sánchez,* Castro's onetime Girl Friday in the hills, who offers a patient ear and a radicalism as woolly as Castro's own. Her apartment, where she keeps a freshly laundered shirt...
...guano deposits from caves in Pinar del Rio and Matanzas and ship it abroad as fertilizer. Castro decided that the commodity was much too valuable to share. In turning over exclusive control of bat guano to sprawling INRA, Castro noted that INRA Director Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez is an expert spelunker, just the man to get in there and get the merchandise moving...
...ring after three years of retirement to put his younger rival in his place. A longstanding and well pressagented public "feud" seemed to make the men enemies, although they are actually brothers-in-law and close personal friends. But feud or no, the fighting has been magnificent. Ordoñez, with his sweeping circulares, has been turning bulls into nosing calves. More than once, Dominguin has gone to his knees and performed his showstopper, el teléfono: leaning casually on the bull's head as he talks into a horn...
...week's end Dominguin led Ordoñez for the year in the sport's anatomical trophy ratings, 61 ears to 48. (At Málaga, between them, the two matadors collected ten ears, four tails and three hoofs.) There is only a persistent memory that mars the duels for aficionados; in 1947, it was Dominguin, then 21, who taunted the peerless Manolete out of retirement, forced him to such daring that he was finally killed by a giant Miura bull. Watching the two matadors, still aching from their half-healed wounds, many a Spaniard wonders if Dominguin...