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...soda at the Hotel Gloria Bar, the fugitive reflected on his happy life. "I like people, particularly the Brazilians," he said. "They're about as sweet, tender and kind a group of people as you could ever find." He pointed to his night-shift bodyguard, Alvaro Fernández, a police plainclothesman by day. "Alvaro here and a lot of friends in the police are taking care of me on their days off. I have a lot of friends...
...fury at the stubborn ranchers. The National Cattlemen's Association had criticized the reform as "confiscatory," planned a $500,000 advertising campaign against it. Castro called the cattlemen "counterrevolutionary," a capital offense in Castro's Cuba. His soldiers picked up and jailed Félix Fernández Pérez, president of the Rustic Estate Owners, a tobacco farmer and rancher and onetime Castro supporter, now an outspoken critic (TIME, June 22). Then Castro summoned press, labor and government delegates from all over the hemisphere to Cuba this week to hear him explain what a good idea...
...round green hills of tobacco-growing Pinar del Río province. The 20,000 farmers united there in the Group of Owners of Rustic Estates held four big rallies that showed the most outspoken opponents of land reform to be gnarled-handed small holders. Felix Fernÿndez Pérez, the group's president, owner of 149 acres and once exiled as a fervent Castro supporter, told 1,000 cheering men: "Castro has fooled us." Said semiliterate Farmer Macho Villar, who also fought for Castro: "I will continue to defend my land as long as I have...
...graver matters: a typhoid epidemic that reduced the population from 60,000 to 11,000. All records of the transaction with the foundry were lost around 1880 when a government building caved in, and Cuzco preferred not to listen to the skeptics. Says Cuzco Historian Enrique Gamarra Hernández: "Atahuallpa was never very popular among Cuzqueños. His father divided the overextended empire between his sons, Atahuallpa and Huascar. Atahuallpa defeated Huascar, took Cuzco, and eliminated the old Cuzco nobility. The Cuzqueños have never quite forgiven...
...refused to waive Espaillat's diplomatic immunity for questioning by the FBI. Instead, Trujillo paid at least $100,000 for an investigation by Manhattan Lawyer Morris Ernst, once famed for defending noble causes, who last month found "not a scintilla of evidence" connecting Murphy and Galíndez...