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Thus one night last week began Fidel Castro's showpiece trial, first of a planned 1,000 trials in the Havana area, for a captured underling of exiled Dictator Fulgencio Batista. The defendant was Captain Jesus Sosa Blanco, 51, a brutal killer who commanded the Batista garrison at Holguin. Charged by Rebel Prosecutor Jorge Serguera with 56 murders, he faced certain conviction. He faced it with flair...
...operate only two or three days a month. Bacardi Rum's main plant, which used to produce 144,000 bottles a day. last week closed for the first time since 1862. Eggs that once cost 4? apiece are now 10?: most food prices are up at least 40%. Holguin (pop. 82,000) has had no electricity for more than a fortnight. In Guantanamo and Bayamo. townsmen use horse-drawn wagons because there is no gasoline...
...week, in Colon Cemetery in Havana, he dropped his broad face in his hands and wept as a guard of honor buried Colonel Fermin Cowley, 47, one of his top commanders, who was gunned down by a carload of Castro men on a downtown street near his headquarters in Holguin (pop. 36,000) in rebel-ridden Oriente province...
...Julio," fired on police headquarters. At the same time they tossed grenades and gasoline bombs on the building from a nearby rooftop and burned it down, while ammunition popped inside. For a time the attackers roamed the area freely, looting a hardware store for weapons. At other towns-Holguin, Guantánamo, Cienfuegos, Santa Clara-other Castro-men rebelled...
...third and last bomb drop was on the northwest corner of an Earle M. Jorgensen steel company building in Los Angeles. This was an important run for Major Holguin. About six miles from the target was the Cheli Air Depot, named for Ralph Cheli, an Air Corps Medal-of-Honor winner who died in the same Japanese prison camp in which Holguin spent two years. "Every time I go into Los Angeles," says Holguin. "I put one in for old Ralph." He did it again this time: the City of Merced's theoretical bomb landed a couple of city...