Word: maestra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make Cuba the example. Let us make the Andes the Sierra Maestra of the Americas...
...Sagan, confector of adult bedtime stories (Bonjour Tristesse, A Certain Smile), off to Cuba in low-heeled shoes. Her considered opinion: Cuba-shmooba. In her first installment, published last week, she took weary note of the countryside from the train bearing her to a camp rally in the Sierra Maestra mountains. Castro perked her interest a bit. He was "strong, smiling." But after the briefest of stays, Author Sagan left Havana, confided to a friend: "Cuba was dull. I couldn't wait...
When, on Nov. 26, 1956, Castro and his 81 men cast off for Cuba in the 62-ft. yacht Granma, Che was aboard. Batista's troops cut down the seasick invaders at the foot of the Sierra Maestra...
...measure of Che's competence is the fact that it was he who led the mili tary action that finally overturned Batista. Thrusting out of the sheltering Sierra Maestra, he led his men-perhaps 150-boldly through the canebrakes and swamps of Camaguey province, fighting toward Cuba's heart. Batista's forces blasted away with fighter planes, tanks and machine guns, but could not stop Che's men. When they swept into Santa Clara, in central Las Villas province, Cuba was cut in two, and Batista boarded a plane for exile...
...rush-a tie that later pulled Che's grandparents back to Argentina. *The legendary Gaucho hero of a famed Argentine epic poem-roughly equivalent to Daniel Boone. -Arriving in Havana last week with his violently anti-U.S. wife Vilma, herself a veteran of fighting in the Sierra Maestra...