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...Fidel Castro is plainly convinced that in the realm of definitive justice, nothing beats a firing squad-even if Cuba's constitution forbids capital punishment. Last week he announced that his government would draft a new law demanding firing-squad executions for embezzlers of government money...
...Fidel Castro fumed. A court of his own rebel judges had acquitted 19 pilots, ten gunners and 16 mechanics of Dictator Fulgencio Batista's air force on trial for "war crimes." Taking judgment into his own hands, he decided that the pilots were guilty as charged of "genocide, murder and homicide" in the bombing and strafing of villages during his war on Batista, ordered the verdict reversed...
Nobody would suggest that the problems Cuba faces have not been real and difficult, but after four hundred executions and two months' suspension of constitutional rights, it is depressing to find the abuses of legal procedure growing even more acute. As an ex-lawyer, Fidel Castro is making a thorough success of destroying...
...Firing squads shot 46 Batista "war criminals," bringing to 362 the eight-week unofficial total-38 short of the 400 maximum once set by Fidel Castro...
...barrels littered small Haitian airports to prevent clandestine landings. In Port-au-Prince, a spate of political murders sent oppositionists into hiding and kept nerves taut. Behind the crisis lay President Francois Duvalier's fear that he would become a stepping stone in Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro's planned invasion of the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. "Haitian exiles are being trained in Havana," said Duvalier. Exhorting his people to fight back, he raised the war cry of famed Patriot Jean Jacques Dessalines (1758-1806): "Coupe tetesl Boulé cailles...