Word: moncada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuban city. Havana in the fifties was an American sailor's brothel; a friend who was in the marines at that time told me that he and his friends considered Havana "one long chain of wild nights." Lest Cubans forget, a reminder is kept in the museum at the Moncada garrison, where the revolution lost its first men. It is a photograph of a drunken American sailor urinating on the statue of Jose Marti, Cuba's most revered hero...
...were the junta's foreign policy moves. In the first official visit by members of the junta to another country, Alfonso Robelo Callejas and Moises Hassan led a delegation of 23 guerrillas to Cuba. Fidel Castro was celebrating the 26th anniversary of his assault on Havana's Moncada barracks. Repaying the Palestine Liberation Organization for the arms and other support it provided during the Sandinistas' "final offensive," the new Nicaraguan government announced that it would seek a "close relationship" with Arab countries...
Cuba. Twenty years ago yesterday, a Cuban lawyer and an Argentinian doctor led a ragged band of 86 freedom fighters in an attack on a fortress in dictator Fulgencio Batista's Cuba. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara lost the battle for the Moncada garrison, and both were imprisoned for some time. Six years later, they led their small guerrilla army into Havana and began to implement a socialist revolution...
...London's Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, provide the first persuasive proof. In one series of experiments, Dr. John Vane found that aspirin-like drugs impeded the synthesis of a prostaglandin known to cause fever in cats. In another, Dr. Vane and his colleagues Sergio Ferreira and Salvador Moncada found that aspirin blocked the release of prostaglandins in a dog's spleen that had been removed and kept functioning artificially. In a third, Drs. John Brian Smith and Anthony Willis showed that aspirin prevented production of prostaglandins in human blood platelets...
...took a month before the pot began to boil. On Thursday, July 23, leaflets began circulating around the Square urging people to celebrate the anniversary of Fidel Castro's July 25 attack on the Moncada Barracks by holding a "block party" on the Common that Saturday night. Although it did not say so explicitly, the leaflet clearly implied that those who came should be prepared to celebrate violently...