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Cubans have long been accustomed to their Maximum Leader's vicious verbal attacks on the U.S. Last week they were delighted when he shifted his biting invective to a surprise target: Red China. In Havana's Communist daily Granma,* Fidel Castro spelled out the whole ugly story of how Peking had not only "committed a criminal act of economic aggression" by reducing its 1966 rice shipments to Cuba, but had also sent huge amounts of propaganda material into the country in an attempt to enlist the army for Peking's espionage purposes. "We have liberated ourselves from...
Pride of Castro's fleet is the still-commissioned Granma, the 74-ft. yacht from which he launched his revolution in December 1956. But for the rest of the 5,500-man Cuban navy, six Russian destroyers are being acquired to add to a pre-Castro flotilla of a dozen U.S.-built corvettes. From seven to ten 40-knot, missile-armed torpedo boats are known to have already arrived as deck cargo from Russia...
When, on Nov. 26, 1956, Castro and his 81 men cast off for Cuba in the 62-ft. yacht Granma, Che was aboard. Batista's troops cut down the seasick invaders at the foot of the Sierra Maestra...
...lady behind all this--the Mrs. Lee whose check created the Department is 1939--is still very active in her lifelong hobby of legal medicine. Not only has "Granma" Lee taught the Department many of its tricks, but she has spent much of her time making a gallery of 15 exact doll-models of scenes from actual crime cases...
...first half of the story takes them to the California line-a 1,500-mile journey of breakdowns, exhaustion, sickness, death (Grampa dies the second day, Granma as they cross the desert), persecution by cops, tourist-camp proprietors, of miseries to make the old pioneers turn in their graves...