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Word: havana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Batista himself wound up in the Dominican Republic with his wife and one son, his other seven children in New Orleans, Jacksonville and New York. As the news broke across Havana in the early dawn, citizens put on the arm bands of the rebel 26th of July movement and tumbled into the streets, firing pistols and Tommy guns in riotous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: End of a War | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Sierra del Cristal 100 miles east, then to the foothills, avoiding decisive battle while the muscle grew. Three weeks ago, with rebels holding most of rural Oriente province and total rebel strength up to 8,500, Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara launched the offensive in Las Villas, 150 miles from Havana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: End of a War | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Scramble. In the dictator's final scramble for safety, ferries, yachts, airliners and private planes were jammed. One Cubana Airlines pilot, at gunpoint, flew 92 refugees to New York just before armed civilians seized the Havana airport. To the Dominican Republic, besides Batista, went Andrés Rivero Aguero, Batista's puppet President-elect, who was supposed to take office Feb. 24. (Another Ciudad Trujillo resident: Argentina's exiled Dictator Juan Perón.) The Jacksonville club included national Police Chief Pilar Garcia, worst of the terrorists, and Army Chief of Staff Francisco Tabernilla, whose unseemly wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: End of a War | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Havana, the celebration was on. Thousands of girls paraded about dressed in red and black, the rebel colors; cheering students roamed through Havana University; rioters wrecked two newspaper offices, sacked gambling casinos and dozens of homes of Batista supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: End of a War | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Gradually, order returned. Surviving policemen joined forces with the rebels, and rebel guards took over at Camp Columbia. Prisons in Havana and on the Isle of Pines were emptied of hundreds of political prisoners. Some 500 U.S. vacationers made their way out safely aboard the ferry, City of Havana, with rebels carrying their luggage. Other tourists slept in hotel lobbies, guarded by armed bellhops wearing July 26 arm bands. Che Guevara led 600 of his bearded mountain warriors into Havana and bedded them down on the parquet floors of the ballroom of the Havana Hilton Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: End of a War | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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