Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro knew that he was on shaky ground. When Matos arrived for the trial at a movie theater at Havana's Camp Liberty, a crowd of rebel soldiers sent up an impromptu cheer-and were seized and hauled off to have their beards shaved for their impertinence. On the witness stand for a seven-hour harangue,* Castro produced not one fact to support the charge of treason. "I do not deny the merits of Huber Matos," said Castro, explaining that his crime was trying to "confound" the revolution by resigning. When Matos tried to interrupt, Prime Minister Castro snarled...
While the plumpish, corseted blonde doled out details (she was a "friend" of the escapee, who had phoned her from Havana for money), the Herald put in a quick call to Miami International Airport. There, by luck, the paper had a man waiting for the next plane to Havana. What's more, Reporter James Coe Buchanan was just the man for the story. On previous Cuban assignments, he had hidden out with Castro rebels, filed eyewitness accounts of the bloody skirmishing. And last summer, when Castro troops trapped a tiny invasion force from the Dominican Republic, wiry, 43-year...
...Upstairs. Within hours, Buchanan was in Havana and waiting for a rendezvous with Evelyn Hill, who took a later plane. She escorted him to a tourist hotel called the St. Johns. "I registered." said Buchanan. "So did she. At about 8, we went upstairs to see Young...
...account of his escape, which was promptly copyrighted by the Herald and splashed all over Page One. It made vivid reading: the ordeal ("I didn't know which was worse, the horrible crawl across the yard or the swamps, the muck and the rocks"), the ride to Havana in a farmer's truck, the friend there who supplied fresh clothing, the hideout at the St. Johns...
Reporter Buchanan was jailed on suspicion of "involvement" in Young's escape-although the reporter did not reach Havana until the day after it happened. After bannering the arrest, the Herald sent Assistant Managing Editor John McMullen to Havana, retained a Havana law firm to secure Buchanan's release...