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...architect, Goizueta started out as a chemist in Coca-Cola's Havana bottling plant; Fidel Castro's 1959 takeover drove him to a job with Coke in the Bahamas. In 1964 he went to the U.S. and began making his way up the company's managerial ranks. Among the tasks he will face in his new job are strengthening the somewhat strained relations Coke has with some of its 550 domestic bottlers and boosting the company's domestic earnings, which now account for only a third of overall profits. "I don't expect anything dramatic...
DIED. Haydeé Santamaria Cuadrado, 53, one of two women who took part in the July 26,1953, attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba that launched Fidel Castro's revolution; by her own hand; in Havana. She survived seven months of imprisonment after the abortive raid and eventually joined Castro's guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra until their victory...
Washington repeated its offer to send U.S. ships and airplanes to Cuba to pick up refugees if Castro agreed to let U.S. officials screen the would-be exiles. Havana rejected the proposal-but not outright. In a front-page editorial in the official newspaper Granma, Cuba expressed its willingness to discuss the "isolated" problem of the refugees if Washington agreed to talk about other issues such as the U.S. economic blockade and the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo. The relatively mild language led Washington to believe that although Castro is not in any real trouble, he may have begun...
...Cuba remained the most urgent cause of worry. The State Department ordered 17 of 20 remaining staffers and their dependents out of Havana, at least temporarily, as Castro whipped up anti-American sentiment before staging a mass rally in the streets of Havana on Saturday. While speakers heatedly denounced the U.S., the crowd relished the rhetoric but refrained from attacking the former U.S. embassy building-the last significant symbol of official American representation in Havana...
...warfare planes equipped to intercept Cuban military communications have been moved to Key West. So too have ten A-4 attack jets, which were ready to help the U.S. helicopter if needed. Seven more Navy fighters will soon be sent to Key West, just ten minutes by air from Havana...