Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daily to ten, and government TV stations in Havana shrank to two. A year ago Havana had six. Inevitably, the dictatorship is losing some popular support. At the peak, Castro had 90% of Cuba's people with him; the figure today is estimated at around 50%. One top underground leader told friends he no longer worried that servants would betray him. Cubans who used to dismiss the Communism charges as right-wing American propaganda are beginning to wake up. A shudder of fear swept Havana last week when a rumor got around that the government was planning to "nationalize...
...Havana's underground, the anti-Red Popular Revolutionary Movement, headed by Castro's former Works Minister Manolo Ray, issued a manifesto: "Under the pretext of freeing us from Yankee imperialism, we have been encircled with the yoke of Russian imperialism. Cubans! Rescue the Revolution from those who have betrayed...
...barren stretch of coast at Humboldt Bay, 225 miles north of San Fran cisco, surveying teams this week went to work on the foundations of a radically new type of nuclear power plant for California's giant Pacific Gas & Electric Co. The reactor will be underground, thus eliminating the need for the expensive protective dome; it will incorporate new advances in design to produce more steam, thus increasing capacity. By 1964, when the second fuel core has been phased in, the reactor's generating capacity will reach about 60,000 kw. When it does, the plant is expected...
...heavily burdened pipelines from Texas. The pipe is coated on the inside with a high gloss plastic which speeds up transmission of the gas by as much as 10%. To store gas, P.G. & E. is converting a depleted gas field east of San Francisco into an immense underground storage area. It will ultimately hold 84 billion cu. ft. of natural gas, enough to heat 16,800,000 homes for one winter month. Other projects: to expand the capacity of one conventional power plant by 330,000 kw. and to start enlarging three others...
...varityped in Miami, sent to New Jersey for printing, then flown back to Miami. Of El Mundo's staff of 25, only four or five are actually reporters. One regular beat: Miami's International Airport, where hundreds of Cuban refugees arrive daily with more notes for the underground...