Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Empty Bottles. In Havana, Castro's antivice campaign suspended the crooked government lottery (costing 4,000 ticket vendors their jobs). The government also closed a giant private numbers game, kept locks on the big gambling casinos, employing 10,000. Castro wiped out the Botellas,*the workless government jobs given minor flunkies by the Batista and previous regimes, whacking off 6,000 names at a saving of $15 million a year. The notoriously corrupt Havana newsmen, who for decades had been drawing up to $1,000,000 a month in government bribes, were rudely reduced to their salaries, some...
...prisoners were shot, raising the four-week execution total to 264. In Victoria de las Tunas eight more were condemned. Havana rebels will organize six more courts to speed the trial of 1,500 candidates for "revolutionary justice." The rebels indicted Batista and 24 top officers in absentia for "treason, rebellion, sedition, desertion, malfeasance, robbery and fraud." Foreign embassies in Havana were crowded with 74 exiles who still have not got safe-conduct permits to leave the country...
Cuba was left to a single fulltime resident U.S. newspaper correspondent-the New York Times's Ruby Hart Phillips (TIME, Jan. 19)-and the Havana bureaus of the A.P. and the U.P.I...
When at year's end the Batista regime suddenly collapsed, few were prepared for the event. The A.P. in Havana moved a Dec. 31 dispatch-based on but not credited to a Batista bulletin-to the effect that Castro's rebels were on the run. While this story was rolling off U.S. presses, Batista fled Cuba...
Moving in the Troops. Into the sudden news vacuum, the press moved troops. Daily airborne platoons of newsmen landed at Havana's Rancho Boyeros, and the A.P. snapped to military attention: "The Associated Press moved extensive reinforcements into Havana today." Some of the arrivals were trained hands: Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, the New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelly. Most were not, like the Vancouver Sun's Fashion Editor Marie Moreau, abruptly shifted from a haute couture visit in New York, to a Havana...