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Decimation. Six days later Castro landed on the southern shore of Oriente province, to be met by Batista's 1st Regiment. Only a dozen rebels escaped the slaughter. Among them were Cuba's future leaders: Fidel and Raul Castro, an Argentine surgeon named Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, a onetime New York dishwasher named Camilo Cienfuegos, a Havana rebel named Faustino Perez...
Next came news from Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. that Colonel Franklin R. Sibert, commander of the 2nd Training Regiment and an Episcopalian, had lent his personal weight to a St. Maurice campaign. A large painting of the saint was hung at headquarters, drawings of St. Maurice were displayed throughout the post, the officers' club was named St. Maurice Club, the gym was named after him, and wooden scrolls appeared on the barracks walls bearing the inscription: "We live, fight and die for God, country and St. Maurice...
...before a sparse crowd of 3,500, hardly half filling Baltimore's cavernous Fifth Regiment Armory to hear his final campaign speech that the President spelled out his two-year hopes in detail. Promised he solemnly: "Looking ahead, we will...
...afternoon last week Margaret Cut-liffe, 18, daughter of a sergeant in Britain's 29th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, went shopping with her mother and a friend for her first evening dress-to be worn at her first dance. As the three women emerged from a shop on Famagusta's Hermes Street, the dress triumphantly in hand, Margaret screamed. Two black-trousered youths bore down on them, poured a packet of bullets into the backs of Margaret's mother and her companion. Mrs. Cutliffe, mother of five (the youngest 15 months), slumped to the sidewalk dead...
...dedicated Communist since 1940, Hor Lung, 52, got his guerrilla training early in World War II at a special British school in Singapore. He commanded the Communists' daringly successful "3rd Independent Force" during the Japanese occupation, after the war turned the regiment against the British. By 1953, he had only one superior among the Communists of the south-a terrorist named Ah Kuk, and known as "Shorty." Shorty's own bodyguards soon took care of that. Learning that there was $66,000 on their master's head, they decided to deliver that head-minus the body...