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...degraded" by having to sit and listen to Andrei Gromyko's laboriously unyielding speeches. At last came the point when, over coffee in the U.S. villa, Herter told Gromyko that he was leaving Geneva in a week-to attend a meeting of the Organization of American States in Santiago, Chile-come what might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: The Breakoff | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Castro was celebrating July 26, the anniversary of the day six years ago that he fired a 12-gauge shotgun to signal the start of an abortive attack on Dictator Fulgencio Batista's Moncada Barracks, in the eastern Cuban city of Santiago. He also needed a display of hero worship so that he could accede to "popular demand" and resume the post of Prime Minister, which he had quit the previous week during the histrionics that preceded the purge of President Manuel Urrutia (TIME, July 27). He got it, and returned to office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Country Boys in Town | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Towering over the sidewalk in front of eastern Santiago's city hall is a 40-ft. billboard showing the major landholdings of Oriente province. Under a sun that bears down like a torch, the guajiros, poor farmers from the hills, stand and stare up hungrily at the land they hope to own through Fidel Castro's agrarian reform. They bring contributions to the Agrarian Reform Institute, everything from pennies to axheads to old barbed wire. "I am in accord with Fidel." says Juan Mora, who owns 17 acres, a thatched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Class War | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...everybody. Fumed a Santiago businessman: "The people here who were Fidel's best friends are working against him now, just like they worked against Batista. A man slaves like a dog to build up a piece of land, and now they take it and give it to somebody else. And if you talk too much, they'll knock your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Class War | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Dominican Republic, published what he said was a pre-election pact between himself and Frondizi. Thus provoked, the plotters moved up the date. At the signal-to be given by Rear Admiral Arturo Rial-the traditionally anti-Peronist Córdoba garrison would rise, and warships from the Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano bases would steam along the River Plate and blockade Buenos Aires. It was roughly the same plan that toppled Peron in 1955-Fatal Flaw. But the plan had a paradoxical flaw: too many other officers outside the plot were also angry with Frondizi. After the Peron "revelation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Another Trick | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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