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Stream of Consciousness. The man behind the show executions reacted with petulance, incomprehension, irrelevancies, inept concessions. Red-eyed from a cold and plain fatigue, Fidel Castro still tried to run the country from Floor 23 of the Havana Hilton Hotel; he roamed through crushing mobs of sycophants in his $100-a-day suite. The hero's soft, high-pitched voice ran on for 20 hours a day, scolding, demanding, refusing, laughing...
...pulled out all the old crowd-pleasers that were growing a bit jaded back home. He called the world press coverage of the executions "the most criminal, vile and cowardly campaign ever conducted against any people." At the Havana Hilton, Floor 23 emptied, the elevators and switchboards began running smoothly again. For a few hours there was peace in Cuba...
...high-pitched voice, promising "peace with liberty, peace with justice, peace with individual rights." A white dove flew up from the crowd and settled on Fidel's right shoulder. After two nights of almost no sleep, he bedded down in the Continental Suite of the Havana Hilton, his rifle tossed on a dresser...
...liquor sales stayed in effect until week's end, but reformist zeal could not entirely suppress the Cuban love of life. As tension gradually eased, the shaggy warriors from the hills began leading awed Havana girls to inspect their free (normally $30-a-day) rooms in the Hilton and Nacional Hotels...
Asked by newsmen as he left his quarters in the Havana Hilton Hotel whether the shooting of Fulgencio Batista's accused henchmen would be called off, Castro replied swiftly: "No. To the contrary, we have given orders to shoot every one of these murderers. And if we have to battle world opinion to mete out justice we are prepared...