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...couple passed by, one sentry, a stocky half-Indian named Romeo Vásquez Sánchez, snapped his heels together at attention, slapped his rifle up to present arms. Then Soldier Vásquez Sánchez stepped back, flipped off one set of hall lights, and raised his 7-mm. Mauser to his shoulder. As the President half-turned, Vásquez Sánchez shot him through the heart. Doughty Castillo Armas, 42, who overthrew the only Communist-dominated government that the Western Hemisphere ever had, died at once...
Cuba's biggest manhunt in recent years got under way one night last week when an informer tipped off police that Aureliano Sánchez Arango, the elusive underground revolutionist (TIME, Nov. 2), was holed up with fellow plotters in a neat, palm-shaded and hedge-hidden house in the outlying Country Club District. The tipster claimed that the rebels were plotting President Fulgencio Batista's assassination. Police, reinforced by army troops, threw a cordon around the district. As 20 radio patrol cars converged on the quiet residence in West Royal Avenue, a group...
...minutes, to the sound of shrieking tires and intermittent gunfire, police played hare & hounds with a 1954 green Oldsmobile. In it the cops claimed to have got a momentary view of Sánchez Arango, dapper in a white suit and sporting a brand-new mustache. Just as a patrol car closed in behind the Olds, an older Buick got in the way, neatly blocked the police out of play, and the Olds disappeared in a burst of speed...
...West Royal Avenue house, the cops found four small TNT bombs, three hand grenades and a .45 pistol. From a house near by they hauled a former congressman who admitted that he had just been talking to Sánchez Arango. When police asked him about what, the man replied, "Baseball...
While 1,000 cops and soldiers were still searching the district, President Batista put on a show of unruffled calm and laid the cornerstone for a new municipal hospital. At the same time Cubans added a new word to their vocabularies, inspired by Aureliano Sánchez Arango's fifth escape from arrest: it was aurelianada, meaning an escape carried out in a hairbreadth, spine-tingling manner...