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...origin of Saturday's demonstration remains a mystery. A rally and ruot was called for the Cambridge Common at midnight Saturday by unidentified leafleters in celebration of the Castro attack on the Moncada Army Barracks on July 26, 1953. But counter-leaflets also passed out in the Square called the demonstration "a police...
Next Sunday, Fidel Castro will celebrate the 14th anniversary of his attack on the Moncada barracks, the formal beginning of the Cuban revolution. At that time, he may well confirm the receipt of new Soviet military equipment. If nothing else, the recent flurry of U.S. surveillance flights should ensure that however significant the aid proves, the U.S. will not be in for any real surprises...
...last day in Oriente, we went to the Moncada barracks in the center of Santiago. On July 26, 1953, 135 Cubans with a strong love for their countrymen and a burning hate for tinhorn dictators with rich American friends tried unsuccessfully to capture the barracks in an attempt to spark an insurrection which they though would topple Batista's government. There is a huge school now in the long, pink building with seventeen-year-old bullet holes still pock-marking its walls. That day the fourth-graders had filled a bulletin board with a photo exhibit of Vietnamese children...
...July 26, 1953, a ragtag band of 160 Cubans tried to trigger an uprising against Dictator Fulgencio Batista by attacking Santiago de Cuba's Moncada Army barracks. The chancy venture was squashed, and half of the partisans were killed. Among those imprisoned was 25-year-old Fidel Castro, a lawyer turned revolutionist, who drew a 15-year sentence. In an act more merciful than wise, Batista granted Castro amnesty after only two years. In 1956, after a brief Mexican exile, Fidel was back in Cuba with another guerrilla band; but this time he was not to be caught...
Cuba took a holiday last week to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Moncada barracks raid. Among the observers at the festivities was TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan, who toured Castro's island fiefdom to see how Cuba has changed in the decade since Fidel took control. His report...