Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marcel Ugols '61, of Lowell House, Paris, and Havana, business manager, David M. Landon '61, of Lowell House and New York City, circulation manager, and Mason D. Harris, Jr. '61, of Lowell House and Fitchburg, Bacchus, will also take office at the beginning of second semester...
Into the Camp. In the face of the new threat by the rebels, Batista's regime showed few signs of cracking. In Havana 30 new British medium tanks and cases of Italian machine guns were unloaded and hustled off to Camp Columbia. From time to time there were tales of dissatisfaction and defection among both high-and low-ranking Cuban army officers. One young air force pilot, Jose Crespo, flew his B-26 to exile in Miami last week, saying that he could not obey orders to "bomb cities and kill innocent women and children." But there were other...
...HAVANA, Jan. 4--Rebel leader Fidel Castro tonight called off the general strike that has paralyzed Cuba since his bearded rebels took over from Fulgencio Batista's dicatorship...
...broadcast by Havana radio said Castro urged all workers to go back to their jobs. All stores and business establishments in this island nation, closed down since New Year's Day, were told to open their doors...
Bundy and Fulgencio Batista after months of planning establish a beachhead in Cuba. An unfortunate geographical error lands their troops just north of the Havana Hilton. A jubilant mob welcomes them as the first tourists to arrive in Cuba since January. July 26, the anniversary of the Castro movement, Bundy is appointed Provisional President. He announces the appointment of Henry A. Kissinger as Defense Minister. The Pope announces the appointment of 23 new Cardinals. "It's a nice round number," he comments...