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Across the country, workers responded to Castro's appeal for funds to buy arms abroad. Around the clock, Havana television stations paraded donors, small and large. Some unions set a 4% deduction from salaries. In Pinar del Rio, 400 common prisoners pledged to stop smoking for two days and send in the 20? that each saved. Since Castro apparently cannot get the 17 Hawker Hunter jets that he wants from England (TIME, Oct. 26), he promised to buy planes "anywhere I can." Even Russia? asked a reporter. "Even the moon...
...Cuba lashed furiously back at him. Last September the National Federation of Gastronomic Workers ordered Havana waiters not to serve Dubois food or drink. Dubois took the ineffectual embargo (lifted after four weeks) in stride. Scoffed he: "I'll bring my own sandwiches." Next, barbers in Pinar del Rio province refused to cut Dubois's hair. That did not bother him; he hasn't much hair anyhow...
Center of activity is Pinar del Rio, Cuba's westernmost province, where prosperous tobacco growers stand to lose their land to Castro's agrarian reform. The fighting arm is headed by a former Batista army corporal named Luis Lara. Last month Castro's troops captured 20 of Lara's men, including two U.S. aircraft pilots. But Lara remains at large...
...market. Bat guano is an even more ambitious INRA undertaking, first sparked by Entrepreneur Bud Arvey (son of Chicago Democratic Bigwig Jake Arvey), who hit Cuba last spring with a plan to join the Castro government in a $500,000 partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar del Rio and Matanzas and ship it abroad as fertilizer. Castro decided that the commodity was much too valuable to share. In turning over exclusive control of bat guano to sprawling INRA, Castro noted that INRA Director Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez is an expert spelunker...
...recruits were transported to a camp in Pinar del Rio in Cuban army trucks, got Cuban uniforms and Cuban weapons. As the weeks became months, some of the mercenaries tried to escape, were caught by Cuban army patrols. One boy, David Chervony. the 17-year-old, went on the abortive invasion of June 14, and was probably killed. The others refused to go -and were clapped into prison. They were freed after a two-day hunger strike, told to leave Cuba and keep their mouths shut. Last week the U.S. Justice Department was quietly gathering evidence to present...