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...Fidel Castro. He happens to be the only man still fighting for his freedom...
Captain Armando Piedra, 40, pilot for Cubana airlines, was flying from Havana to the Cuban city of Cienfuegos eight months ago when rebels fighting for Fidel Castro popped up among the passengers, commandeered the plane, forced Piedra to head for Mexico. A fortnight ago it fell to Piedra, who is also a good amateur skin-diver, to dive to the sunken hull of a Cubana airlines Viscount that crashed and killed 17 of 20 passengers when rebel hijackers tried to force it to land near Cuba's Nipe Bay (TIME, Nov. 10). By last week, when Piedra took...
...Cuba was only going through the motions. Between them. Dictator Fulgencio Batista and Rebel Chief Fidel Castro had throttled all chances of democratic process in this week's presidential election. Cuba's Supreme Electoral Tribunal, sitting as arbiter of election disputes, is a Batista tool. Batista's cops are everywhere; his rubber-stamp Congress 13 times in 23 months has suspended the freedoms of speech, press and assembly -all requisites to honest electioneering. Newspapers, radio and TV are censored, and when one candidate called Batista a dictator, the station automatically censored...
...haul was the biggest in months-31 rebels (who were charged with plotting against a foreign state), $30,000 worth of mortars, antitank guns, rifles and medical supplies headed for Fidel Castro's revolutionary forces. Next day, in luxurious homes along Biscayne Boulevard, in such southwestern Miami hangouts as the neonbright Blue Derby Restaurant and the Tropicana dance hall, Cuban faces were as long as a rum sour. And Cubans were not the only residents of Miami with a particular interest in the night's events. The city is a hive of revolutionists; hardly a day goes...
...citizen who identified himself to a TIME correspondent in Havana as the pilot of a plane loaded with arms that ditched in Guantanamo Bay fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 1). Charge: violating the U.S. Mutual Security Act by illegally exporting munitions, specifically, a load of arms and ammunition destined for Fidel Castro in his war against Dictator Fulgencio Batista...