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...recent Communist Party Congress in Moscow, old-line Cuban Communist Blas Roca "resolutely supported" Khrushchev's blast at Albania, grinned while Fellow Delegate Rita Diaz ran down the aisle in her militiawoman's regalia, presented Khrushchev with a Cuban flag. Yet the same issue of the Cuban government organ Revolución that plastered Khrushchev's attack across more than two pages also printed Peking Delegate Chou En-lai's rejoinder in full...
Today, in the party's leadership, Old-time Communist Marinello, 61, has stepped aside and become a scholarly front man. Secretary General Bias Roca, 52, a trusted Moscow agent, controls the party apparatus. Rodríguez, 47, is the liaison between the Communists and the government. He is the one who meets secretly with Castro and Guevara. In 1955 the P.S.P. met underground and set out some "Fundamental Points." It demanded: ¶"Nationalization of foreign public service companies." ¶"Nullification of concessions to Yankee imperialists such as the King Ranch, mining and oil companies." ¶"Commercial relations with...
Real estate is costly in the mountain valley that houses Caracas, but the hill called La Roca Tarpeya, considered too steep for building sites, long stood barren right in the middle of town. Now an ambitious young builder is covering the rock with a cap of concrete and glass to form a spiraling, 25-acre commercial area worth $30 million. Architect Jorge Romero Gutiérrez, 36, calls his project "the helicoid," or spiral. In the two years that construction has been under way, Romero has spent $16.5 million, and last week the helicoid was 60% finished...
Communist Party Boss Bias Roca blasted the sugar workers in the Red newspaper Hoy for "brutally antidemocratic methods." The sugar workers answered Bias Roca by voting to censure Hoy for its "distorted, calumnious and counterrevolutionary reports." Shouts of "Burn Hoy !" rang through the hall, and a cordon of cops had to be sent to protect its plant for 24 hours...
Hanson Robbins skippered the A-division boat with a crew of John Stotler on Saturday and Xavier Roca yesterday. The B-division Tech dinghy was skippered by George Peter, with Peter van Teel and Edward Lund as crewmen on Saturday and Sunday respectively...