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...internal conflict" that has plagued the island for nearly three months. Bomb-bursts terrorize Havana almost nightly; the explosions often knock down power poles and black out parts of the city. Sugar cane fields are put to the torch with regularity. And in southeastern Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra mountains, a band of wily, determined rebels is getting larger...
...stay home evenings. Apparently by plan, several bomb setters touched off blasts within earshot of the tourist-packed Hotel Nacional. In the eastern province of Oriente. where a few score irregulars (who last month invaded Cuba under Rebel Leader Fidel Castro) were still fighting from hideouts in the Sierra Maestra range, four small army garrisons were attacked. In the resulting fighting, 28 soldiers and insurgents were reported killed. And every day saboteurs up and down the island set new fires in fields of ripened sugar cane, Cuba's main source of income...
...sabotage went on, pointing up the fact that the rebel invaders (including their leader, Fidel Castro) who touched off the unrest were still at large, holed up somewhere in the Sierra Maestra range in Oriente. That they could still flaunt their flag of insurrection especially disconcerted Batista, for it seemed to show that his troops, sent to kill or capture the rebels, lacked the heart or the ability...
...same. Father Andres tried to get them to come to the school he had set up in his sacristy, but the children, rebelling at being cooped up, refused to stay. Then, one morning while riding up the hill, Father Andres came across an old woman ex-convict named Maestra Migas leading a group of chanting children through their catechism and telling them "how to be good men when you grow up." Father Andres suddenly knew he had the answer to his problem-a whole new type of school that the gypsies would like...
Under the Trees. With 14 pupils, he founded Ave Maria. But this time he knew better than to herd his pupils inside the church. Taking his cue from Maestra Migas, he held all classes outdoors. There were no textbooks or blackboards; students learned by playing games and singing special songs under the flowering trees and warm Andalusian...