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Died. Carlos Prio Socarrás, 74, the last constitutionally elected President of Cuba (1948-52); of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Miami Beach. Prio Socarrás, who pridefully described himself as "a cordial President," was overthrown by General Fulgencio Batista and charged with corruption. To oust Batista, Prio Socarrás helped finance Fidel Castro's 1959 takeover, but later broke with him, attacking his "Communist tyranny." A leader of Miami's Cuban exiles, he met with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in February to voice opposition to U.S. détente with Cuba...
Arriving in Miami, a Cuban underground agent code-named "Lucas" called for more arms and bombs to step up sabotage against Fidel Castro's regime. Carlos Prio Socarrás, a onetime President of Cuba, talked of forming a government in exile. José Miró Cardona, head of the ill-starred Cuban Revolutionary Council, was still shuttling back and forth to Washington, conferring with Kennedy aides. But for all the anti-Castro shadowboxing, the ordinary Cuban exile is becoming resigned to the idea that Castro, may be around a while longer. By last week, most of the approximately...
...heat of Miami Beach, where he lives. He is also trying to beat what the U.S. State Department calls "very good" chances of deporting him-and he has talented help. His attorney is Miamian David W. Walters, who performed a similar service for Cuban ex-President Carlos Prio Socarrás. Grinned Walters last week: "Prio stayed seven years and went back to Cuba voluntarily before we had exhausted anywhere near all the possibilities...
Castro went to Mexico to recruit men and money. One summer evening in 1956, he stole across the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas. Castro spent the next day in McAllen's Casa de Palmas Hotel with the richest Batista-hater of all: ex-President Carlos Prío Socarrás, 55, who had been bounced from office by the dictator's coup eight months before his term was up and began plotting so persistently that he is still under U.S. indictment for violating the Neutrality Act. "Here was the timber of a hero," said Pro. As President...
...became President. After four years Batista allowed his hand-picked successor to be defeated in Cuba's first honest election and retired to Daytona Beach to enjoy his graft. The administrations of Ramón Grau San Martin. (1944-48) and Carlos Prío Socarrás (1948-52) respected civil liberties but not the treasury. Prío amassed millions by the time he fled Batista's coup...