Word: santiagos
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...before the people in any fashion, except from the safety of heavily guarded TV stations. A few were shot down. In Oriente province, balloting was virtually impossible. In a frenzy of rage, Castro laid ambushes along the major highways. Burnt-out cars and buses studded the roads, and Santiago, capital of Oriente, was virtually cut off. To make his point clear, Castro got on the rebel radio and warned: "The orders to the people for Nov. 3 are: Do not go outside. The people must show their rejection of the elections by remaining at home...
...undercut Pan Am or Panagra by close to half. Samples: Guatemala's Aviateca charges $99 for a round trip between Guatemala City and Miami; Pan Am gets $147.60. I.A.T.A. fare for a Lima-Miami round trip is $473.40; Aerovias Panama Airways asks only $260. Aerolineas Peruanas sells a Santiago-Miami two-way ticket for $276.50; Pan Am and Panagra are required to charge $678. To top it all off, U.S. airlines are limited by local regulations as to the number of seats that they can sell. Brazil restricts Pan Am to 430 seats a week (a figure set years...
...world of hardheaded business. He took over Chile's paper monopoly, ran it on the no-nonsense theory that what is good for the company is bound to be good for the workers, made both himself and his employees prosperous. Aside from a term as a Santiago Congressman when he was 30 and a dutiful stint as Finance Minister in 1947-50, he steered clear of politics until last year, when he became convinced that Chile had to be saved from politicians. Businesslike as ever, he ran for a Santiago Senate seat...
...last week the rebels halted a Havana-Santiago train, killed most of the armed guard aboard, rescued a rebel leader being transported for trial and. after waiting vainly to ambush the expected counterattack, retired in leisurely fashion. Two days later they severed the SantiagoGuantanamo highway, blocked traffic for three hours, again withdrew without interference. Nightly, the rebels sniped at the army garrison guarding the Yateras waterworks, which supplies the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo...
...sailors and marines, 17 civilians, most of them sugar and nickel company employees -were rounded up in eastern Cuba and herded into the mountains by rebel guerrillas headed by Raúl Castro, left-wing brother of Cuba's Rebel Boss Fidel Castro (see HEMISPHERE). U.S. Consul in Santiago de Cuba Park Wollam and Vice Consul Robert Wiecha jeeped into the hills, talked with rebel leaders, got a promise that Americans would be let go, set up a Navy helicopter lift that began hauling out the prisoners a handful at a time...