CUBA: Late for Meeting

Two months ago Cuba voted herself a new Senate and House of Representatives, a new President. The new Senate and House were to convene Sept. 16. On Oct. 10 the new President was to be inaugurated. This week Sept. 16 passed and no new Congress convened. Reason: there had been so many election disputes that only six Senators and no Representatives could be certified. Gleefully the opposition parties predicted that the tangle would delay the inauguration of the new President, dynamic, dark-eyed Strong Man Colonel Fulgencio Batista.

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