Word: urrutia
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...Government. From Santiago, Castro proclaimed Judge Manuel Urrutia President of Cuba. Urrutia in turn named Castro head of the armed forces and appointed a Cabinet of rebel professors, doctors and lawyers, including one man called the Minister in Charge of Recovering Stolen Government Property. Castro will doubtless be the biggest voice in the land for some time to come, and he gave signs of capricious temper. On his orders, Havana was closed down until early this week by a pointless general strike that cut food supplies and kept nerves on edge...
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 5--Provisional President Manuel Urrutia arrived in Havana late today, raising the prospect that martial law in Havana province and a prospective curfew for the capital would be lifted quickly...
...Castro's rebel forces against a group of young revolutionary zealots who had occupied the presidential palace. Castro's men so far were resorting to persuasion. Apparently they were meeting with success, for the splinter group of revolutionaries left the palace on orders from their leaders rather than embarrass Urrutia's struggling young regime...
...proclamation of martial law was made by Maj. Camilo Cienfuegos, Castro's military chief for Havana province. He said it would remain in force until Urrutia was installed in the presidential palace...
...denies all presidential (or dictatorial) ambitions: "I can do more for my country giving an example of disinterestedness." But he insists that "our movement has the right to appoint the Provisional President." For that job, his present choice is a respectable but unknown lower-court judge named Manuel Urrutia (now exiled in the U.S.), largely because Urrutia once spoke up for the right of rebels to oppose dictatorships...