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...Action. The insurgents looked like an armed mob, but they had a leadership of sorts (see box). Handsome Pierre Lagaillarde shouted orders to his student followers and strode about, impressive in his paratrooper uniform of camouflage cloth, looking-with his neatly trimmed beard and mustache-like a well-barbered Fidel Castro. Burly, olive-skinned Jo Ortiz led the slum contingents instead of setting up drinks in his Forum bar. Pious Robert Martel had brought in the farmers who belonged to his "Movement...
Cuba's revolution now seems aimed at taking over every institution, business and property of note in the country. Fidel Castro's National Institute for Agrarian Reform (I.N.R.A.) has blanket authority to seize land, and it is doing just that at a hectic pace. His Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Government Property grabs all possessions of "counter-revolutionaries," real and imagined. To this pair of communizing agencies, Castro last week added a third: the Labor Ministry, which got decree power to take over any business or labor organization...
...October that he had no intention of giving plots of land to peasants, planned to keep it instead in state-run cooperative farms. Artime also said he was sick of hearing "youth brigades" chanting their military drill cadence count outside his window every evening:" Uno-dos-tres-cuatro- viva-Fidel-Castro...
...fighting comrade of Castro who lately has borne the title of Cuba's paratroop commander, defected while on a visit to Costa Rica. Of Castro he said: "There is something in his eyes that frightens even the bravest man. They reflect madness." Rojo called Fidel's brother. Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, a "vindictive jelly bean" with a "resentment against the masculine type of man," and said that "all .his aides are Communists...
Even though Congress threatens to slash Cuba's sugar quota in reprisal for Fidel Castro's seizure of U.S. property, Hawaii is in no position to step up its production to benefit. So, last week, Hawaii's leading sugar company, American Factors, Ltd., announced a plan that it hopes will help it break out of its box. It set up a new organization called Sugar International* to equip other countries with a Hawaiian-style sugar industry...