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...been driven to desperate measures. Two weeks ago, Cubans seized six airliners, three on Aug. 16 alone, and forced the pilots to fly to Havana; the skyjackings set records for the most in one week and the most in a single day. Stern security measures, augmented by reports that Fidel Castro has thrown the successful skyjackers into Cuban jails, appeared to be taking effect, however: there were no new skyjackings last week...
...Fidel Castro, meanwhile, did not hesitate to show his own support. Within hours of the Sandinista victory, he began sending Cubans to work in Nicaragua as doctors, teachers, engineers and military advisers. Today they total more than 2,000. But Nicaragua does not seem to be turning into a docile Cuban appendage. Says William Baez, director of a private enterprise group: "The government wants to go to some kind of socialist situation, but they don't want another Cuba...
...architect, Goizueta started out as a chemist in Coca-Cola's Havana bottling plant; Fidel Castro's 1959 takeover drove him to a job with Coke in the Bahamas. In 1964 he went to the U.S. and began making his way up the company's managerial ranks. Among the tasks he will face in his new job are strengthening the somewhat strained relations Coke has with some of its 550 domestic bottlers and boosting the company's domestic earnings, which now account for only a third of overall profits. "I don't expect anything dramatic...
DIED. Haydeé Santamaria Cuadrado, 53, one of two women who took part in the July 26,1953, attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba that launched Fidel Castro's revolution; by her own hand; in Havana. She survived seven months of imprisonment after the abortive raid and eventually joined Castro's guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra until their victory...
Arafat was not the only revolutionary superstar in Nicaragua last week. Cuban President Fidel Castro toured the country for a week after an initial appearance at Managua's anniversary rally. He did not appear to have come to preach Marxist revolution. Instead, his low-key visit was marked by uncharacteristic restraint. "We are here humbly to learn and to be influenced," he said...