Word: sierras
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...brooding, majestic Sierra Nevada range that thrusts up between the valleys of California and the deserts to the east has on occasion been a deadly barrier to man's fragile aircraft. Confident jets and older prop jobs overfly it every day, but hidden among the Sierra Nevada's rocky gorges and forested slopes rests the remains of other planes that struck the range's towering peaks or plunged to earth in wild, relentless winter storms...
...them were five or six young Cubans who had been led in an attack on a Santiago barracks by a beardless young rebel named Fidel Castro on July 26, 1953-an anniversary that Fidel Castro celebrated last week by gathering 100,000 Cubans in his original mountain stronghold, the Sierra Maestra, for speeches and fiestas...
When, on Nov. 26, 1956, Castro and his 81 men cast off for Cuba in the 62-ft. yacht Granma, Che was aboard. Batista's troops cut down the seasick invaders at the foot of the Sierra Maestra...
...measure of Che's competence is the fact that it was he who led the mili tary action that finally overturned Batista. Thrusting out of the sheltering Sierra Maestra, he led his men-perhaps 150-boldly through the canebrakes and swamps of Camaguey province, fighting toward Cuba's heart. Batista's forces blasted away with fighter planes, tanks and machine guns, but could not stop Che's men. When they swept into Santa Clara, in central Las Villas province, Cuba was cut in two, and Batista boarded a plane for exile...
...gold rush-a tie that later pulled Che's grandparents back to Argentina. *The legendary Gaucho hero of a famed Argentine epic poem-roughly equivalent to Daniel Boone. -Arriving in Havana last week with his violently anti-U.S. wife Vilma, herself a veteran of fighting in the Sierra Maestra...