Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holdouts. Batista's lesser cops, in no position to flee, fought on. Radio and television stations chattered out the prowl-car numbers of known killer cops, and the rebels tracked them down. By the next dawn, rebel blockaders had trapped at least four police cars and gunned the occupants dead. Rebels besieged police snipers, fought confused night battles among themselves. For three days and nights, bullets whined in Central Park, in downtown office buildings, in suburban Vedado. An estimated 40 persons died...
Gradually, order returned. Surviving policemen joined forces with the rebels, and rebel guards took over at Camp Columbia. Prisons in Havana and on the Isle of Pines were emptied of hundreds of political prisoners. Some 500 U.S. vacationers made their way out safely aboard the ferry, City of Havana, with rebels carrying their luggage. Other tourists slept in hotel lobbies, guarded by armed bellhops wearing July 26 arm bands. Che Guevara led 600 of his bearded mountain warriors into Havana and bedded them down on the parquet floors of the ballroom of the Havana Hilton Hotel...
...Government. From Santiago, Castro proclaimed Judge Manuel Urrutia President of Cuba. Urrutia in turn named Castro head of the armed forces and appointed a Cabinet of rebel professors, doctors and lawyers, including one man called the Minister in Charge of Recovering Stolen Government Property. Castro will doubtless be the biggest voice in the land for some time to come, and he gave signs of capricious temper. On his orders, Havana was closed down until early this week by a pointless general strike that cut food supplies and kept nerves on edge...
Fidel Castro Ruz, 32, the rebel chief, is a nonpracticing lawyer who began fighting Batista in 1953 by leading a frontal attack on Moncada barracks in Santiago. He named his 26th of July movement for the day the attack failed, went into Mexican exile, returned to invade Oriente province with 81 men aboard the yacht Gramma on Dec. 2, 1956. Castro likes to sit about a campfire and talk military science, citing Rommel and Napoleon, and discussing romantic proposals for Cuba, e.g., a school-city for 20,000 children. In 1953 he called for nationalization of U.S.-owned public utilities...
Manuel Urrutia Lleo, 57, a colorless career jurist from Santiago, gained Castro's admiration 19 months ago by voting to release a group of rebel prisoners on the ground that revolution in Cuba is a constitutional right. Batista forced him into exile; he lived in the New York borough of Queens. He is antiCommunist, pro-U.S. Castro barely knew him before choosing him for the presidency...