CUBA: Tonight at 8:30

Cuba's troublesome wave of sporadic bombings, sabotage and bloodshed spread into its third month last week. Strongman Fulgencio Batista was still undisputed boss of the island, but a few more months of terrorism might well bring the hour when other army officers would gravely inform him that—"for the good of Cuba" —he must step down. To head off that hour. Batista acted. He broadened the existing partial suspension of civil rights to cover the entire island, extended the decree another 45 days. Then he sent censors to newspapers, cable offices, radio and...

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