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...harsh antistrike measures were announced, Rebel Faustino Perez, Castro's underground chief in Havana, rechecked his strength. The strike call, widely predicted for last week, did not come. "Wouldn't you think a long time?" asked one Cuban worker. "Batista's men will be shooting to kill." Habaneros hoarded food, staged a jittery run on the banks...
...took time during one of his two visits to Latin America to pay a courtesy call on Colombia's Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. since kicked out. The recent U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. beaming Dempster Mclntosh. was photographed in the foolish act of making Venezuela's Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez an "honorary member of the U.S. submarine fleet...
Fangio, meanwhile, was under guard in a comfortably furnished apartment. He had eaten well (steak and potatoes, chicken and rice), and he had slept "like a blessed one." Faustino Perez, Castro's second in command, had come personally to apologize for the inconvenience. The rebels even supplied a radio so that Fangio might listen to the race. But he preferred not to. "I became a little sentimental," he said. "I did not want to listen because I felt nostalgic." Yet Fangio was also fearful that his life was endangered, not by his abductors but by a clash that might...
...Perez Jimenez' downfall was the latest in a series of spectacular overturns that have thinned the ranks of Latin America's caudillos in the past four years...
...military member: Air Force Colonel Jesús Maria Castro LeÓn, a leader of the original anti-Pérez Jiménez plot. The civilians and some members of the armed forces were still displeased. Two junta colonels, they protested, were merely holdovers from the Perez Jimenez administration. Larrazabal fired them and put them on the first plane for Curagao...