Word: pinar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuba. For nearly a year, disillusioned rebels have been drifting back to the hills. They are still unorganized, have no unified chain of command. But last week 500 to 800 men were still in the Escambray, operating in loose guerrilla fashion. And there are other, smaller groups in Pinar del Rio, in Matanzas and in Las Villas provinces...
...work, spearheaded by idealistic young army officers, zealous female social workers and, as of last week, at least 70 Russian technicians, is having a deep effect. Said straw-hatted Luis Zaya, 31, jawing away a rainy afternoon on the porch of People's Store No. 9 in Pinar del Rio: "I'm 100% better. Before, there was no work. Now there's work all year. Now we are eating-rice, eggs, beans." Assured of $88 a month on his INRA coop, Zaya says: "If this is Communism, let it come...
Last week the Cuban Ministry for the Recovery of Illegally Acquired Property seized the weekly newspaper Vocero Occidental in Pinar del Rio. No reason was given. The seizure brings to more than 50 the number of papers under the thumbs of the Castro regime...
...police (TIME, Dec. 21). Accused of concealing the escapee-an anti-Castro plotter named Austin Frank Young-Buchanan for 13 days languished in a cell with up to 18 other prisoners, dirty, unshaven and scared. Last week, with scarcely any advance notice, Cuban authorities hustled Reporter Buchanan off to Pinar del Rio province for trial...