Word: santiagos
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...what of Magsaysay's young crusaders? Chief among them is young (41) Manuel P. Manahan, an ex-newspaper publisher who organized the Magsaysay-for-President movement. During the war he served on Bataan and Corregidor, was imprisoned by the Japs at infamous Fort Santiago. Tall and stocky, Manuel Manahan has many of the mannerisms and some physical resemblance to the late President. He ran the President's pet project, the Complaints and Action Committee...
Dream Landscape. "His mission was religious and military," says Author Descola, and makes clear that at the time no Spaniard saw a contradiction in this. Cortés formed his expeditionary fleet in Santiago de Cuba, and his flag bore the device: "Brothers and comrades, let us follow the Cross, and if we have true faith in this symbol, we will conquer." The facts will always remain astonishing-how Cortés scuttled his ten ships (not "burned behind him," but dismantled and sunk, despite legend and the Encyclopaedia Britannica) and with his Aztec mistress, 400 Spaniards, 15 horses...
Troops from Santiago's Moncada barracks quickly regained control of the deserted streets for the government as the rebels melted away without a stand. Next day they were back, sharpshooting from rooftops. Batista sent planes and 400 more troops, and arrested known opponents of his government by the hundreds...
...leader was a wellborn, well-to-do daredevil of 29, named Fidel Castro. As chief of a 1953 uprising in eastern Santiago de Cuba, the island's No. 2 city, Lawyer Castro had been jailed, amnestied, exiled. In Mexico this year he pulled together a ragtag force, dubbed it the July 26 Movement (for the date of the Santiago attack), drilled it at a ranch near Mexico City. Last month Castro, crying "Liberty or death in 1956," called on Strongman Batista to step down and form a national unity government or face revolution. In Havana Castro's followers...
Just before dawn one day last week, the revolt got under way-again in Santiago. Machine gunners, in olive-drab uniforms with black-and-red armbands marked "26 de Julio," fired on police headquarters. At the same time they tossed grenades and gasoline bombs on the building from a nearby rooftop and burned it down, while ammunition popped inside. For a time the attackers roamed the area freely, looting a hardware store for weapons. At other towns-Holguin, Guantánamo, Cienfuegos, Santa Clara-other Castro-men rebelled...