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...were five or six young Cubans who had been led in an attack on a Santiago barracks by a beardless young rebel named Fidel Castro on July 26, 1953-an anniversary that Fidel Castro celebrated last week by gathering 100,000 Cubans in his original mountain stronghold, the Sierra Maestra, for speeches and fiestas...
Sixteen months ago, gun in hand, Fidel Castro came out of the Sierra Maestra range in eastern Cuba and liberated the island from dictatorship. Last week, gun in hand, Castro returned to the Sierra. This time he was the hunter...
...nominal head of the committee was Author Waldo (America Hispana) Frank, but the real organizer was Robert Taber, a Columbia Broadcasting System newsman, and one of a group of U.S. journalists who won gold medals from Castro for getting through to interview him in his Sierra Maestra days. Frank has been a guest of Castro, and Taber of a Cuban publisher. Taber drew up the ad, and Frank mailed it out to his many friends among the intellectual set. They got enough names and money to pay the bill, but a more impressive list could be made from those...
...been closer. They flew around Cuba in a huge blue-and-white Russian-marked helicopter. Castro showed Mikoyan the tobacco lands in the west, the Isle of Pines, a government agriculture cooperative, the Moncada barracks in Santiago, where Castro's revolution began, even the foothills of the Sierra Maestra, scene of Castro's insurrection. Mikoyan kept murmuring: "The work of the revolution is very good." One day he took time out to call on Ernest Hemingway at his country house outside Havana, presented the writer with a set of his books printed in Russia. In Moscow, Komsomolskaya Pravda...
...Sierra Maestra he was also late," he said, fondling his rifle. "But never on raids...