Word: grammas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civil engineer who had worked hard rebuilding Cuba's shattered transportation system; Treasury Minister Rufo López Fresquet, 48, and bearded Faustino Pérez. 39, Minister for the Recovery of Stolen Government Property and a survivor of Castro's original invasion on the yacht Gramma...
...Communist from abroad." With this sinecure in hand, Guevara settled down in a second-rate Guatemala City hotel, flitted in and out of the country on unexplained missions. With the Jacobo Arbenz government falling, Guevara tried to organize guerrillas to fight, then fled to Mexico, where he joined the Gramma band. Guevara, who denies that he is a Communist, insists that the Hungarian revolution was "fomented against the people's democracy by Fascists and imperialists...
...attack, was hurt. But he force-marched his rebels through the mountains 15 hours a day, learned mapmaking, bomb making and marksmanship. On Nov. 26, 1956, Castro and 81 revolutionaries set to sea from Tuxpam on the Gulf of Mexico aboard their Prío-bought 62-ft. yacht Gramma...
...Faustíno Pérez, a bearded Gramma survivor, traded his uniform for natty civilian clothes and the title of Minister for Recovering Stolen Government Property. As a start he took inventory at Batista's estate outside Havana-mansion, movie house, museum, library, $4,000 lamps...
...chief, is a nonpracticing lawyer who began fighting Batista in 1953 by leading a frontal attack on Moncada barracks in Santiago. He named his 26th of July movement for the day the attack failed, went into Mexican exile, returned to invade Oriente province with 81 men aboard the yacht Gramma on Dec. 2, 1956. Castro likes to sit about a campfire and talk military science, citing Rommel and Napoleon, and discussing romantic proposals for Cuba, e.g., a school-city for 20,000 children. In 1953 he called for nationalization of U.S.-owned public utilities in Cuba, land reform and industrial...