Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havana's Radio Reloj-Radio Clock-chattered away one afternoon last week with news and commercials, then gave the time of day: 3:30. A pause followed-for the excellent reason that three young men had burst into the studio waving guns. One of them pointed a pistol at the announcer's head, and the trembling announcer broadcast what he was ordered to say: "Batista is dead!" At the Presidential Palace, fellow rebels stormed in to make the words come true, were soon within one flight of stairs of succeeding...
There is, of course, another alternative. Said a top Havana businessman last week: "Violence breeds violence, and events are in a vicious circle. The government should gather its courage and announce an honest election...
...danger he had faced. But some of his henchmen quickly took up the politics of murder. Two lowly oppositionists were found shot to death. another hanged. Far more ominously, former Senator Pelayo Cuervo Navarro, 57, a politico who fought Batista with outspoken criticism, was found in a Havana suburb, his body riddled with bullets...
...HAVANA, Cuba, March 13--Armed rebel forces invaded the palace home of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista today and 20 persons were reported killed in a battle inside the palace...
...through to Castro, Reporter Matthews played two roles. For the trip by car from Havana to eastern Oriente province, Matthews and his wife Nancie were "tourists"; at roadblocks, guards waved them on with friendly smiles. Leaving Nancie in the home of some Castro sympathizers, Matthews then rode in a rebel jeep deeper into the cane country around the range as "an American sugar planter who could not speak a word of Spanish," dressed "for a fishing trip"-which proved convincing to patrolling troops. The reporter, with escorts loyal to Castro, reached the foothills at midnight, slithered on afoot. At dawn...