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...trials rebels acted as prosecutor, defender and judge. Verdicts, quickly reached, were as quickly carried out. In Santiago the show was under the personal command of Fidel's brother Raul, 28, a slit-eyed man who had already executed 30 "informers" during two years of guerrilla war. Raul's firing squads worked in relays, and they worked hour after hour. Said Raul: "There's always a priest on hand to hear the last confession...
...announcement came as 21 foreign ministers from Latin American nations gathered in Washington for an informal conference, brought a quick protest from countries dependent on lead and zinc exports. Peru's Raul Porras Barrenechea told Secretary of State Dulles: "Imposition of quotas amounts to economic aggression." Said Dulles: "It is the hope of the United States that the quota system will be a temporary measure...
...Freshman team won 7 to 2, but M.I.T. showed indications of a powerful varsity to come, as its number one player, Cuban Davis Cup star Raul Karman, defeated Bob Bowditch...
...most of the week, the army holed up in its fortified bases-Manzanillo, Bayamo and Santiago-and the rebels took over the countryside, cutting off Oriente from the rest of Cuba. Fidel's brother, Raul, led his 150 men out of the Sierra del Cristal, 100 miles northeast of the main rebel strongholds. One night at Moa Bay they held the Freeport Sulphur Co.'s $75 million nickel mining project for twelve hours before pulling out. With no traffic moving in or out of Santiago, residents began dipping into hoarded food supplies. The rebels admitted that they were...
Moscow prepared to receive an official Argentine equipment-buying mission of delegates from the state-owned oil monopoly, the state railways, the government's Coal Board and its Water and Power Board. Said the mission's chief, Under Secretary of Industry Raul On-darts: "We urgently need machinery and capital goods. We do not care where they come from." In Brazil, top government officials re-examined their anti-Red-trade policies; President Juscelino Kubitschek said he knew "what dangers negotiations can lead to," but pointed out that Soviet-bloc countries "offer economic prospects that deserve to be studied...