One evening last week in the Senate Chamber of Havana's lush marble-and-gilt Capitolio, the temperature of senatorial tempers soared with that of the tropic night. Locked in snarling, fang-baring debate were the stalwarts of the Government and the Opposition. Main contention bone is the $25,000,000 loan the Government is trying to get from the U.S. Export-Import Bank. If the Government got it, that would make the Opposition look just that much less good, regardless of the merits of the issue. Senate President Dr. Antonio Beruff Mendieta made a ruling, and the Opposition...
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