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Evidently el máximo lider was shaken. Abruptly altered were last weekend's annual Havana University celebrations of the abortive 1957 student attack on Fulgencio Batista's palace. Instead, the government announced, the entire student body had decided to spend the holiday cutting sugar cane...
...other the cool, brainy tactician. Some wags called the Argentine Guevara a "Gau-cho Marx," but they said it with a sour smile. Che was in the original rebel band in the Sierra Maestra mountains in 1956, the man who mapped Castro's guerrilla tactics against Dictator Fulgencio Batista and became world-famous for his handbook of dirty tricks, La Guerra de Guerrillas. He was Cuba's first economic czar, running the national bank, then the Ministry of Industries, all the while plotting to extend Castro's revolution throughout Latin America with "wars of national liberation." Always...
There, last week, on the anniversary of the July 26, 1953, attack that began the revolution against Dictator Fulgencio Batista, more than 200,000 Cubans gathered to hear Fidel...
Into the Hills. Urbane and well-educated, Rodriguez joined the party in 1930, while a law student at Havana University, soon proved himself one of its most practical politicians. In 1944, when the Communists were supporting Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Rodriguez even became a minister without portfolio in Batista's Cabinet for seven months. That palship lasted until the mid-1950s, and when Castro started his revolution in the Sierra Maestra, Rodriguez hurried into the hills to become liaison man with the underground in the cities...
...tubes, half in, half out of the water. What sort of land is it that drives men to take such risks to escape? Last month Fidel Castro invited 30 U.S. newsmen to Cuba to witness the July 26 celebrations marking the eleventh anniversary of his initial attack against Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Among the newsmen was TIME'S Caribbean Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold. His report...