When Rebel Leader Fidel Castro came down from his 150-mile-long Sierra Maestra hideout last month to smash an army garrison. President Fulgencio Batista launched a "campaign of extermination." Since then, the rebel band has not been sighted, let alone exterminated. Last week Batista sent a new field commander, Colonel Pedro A. Barrera Perez, to put an end to the six-month revolt.
Barrera, who led an unsuccessful anti-Castro campaign 4½ months ago, went back with the certain knowledge that the odds had grown even worse. Against him now are most of the 1,798,000 people...
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