CUBA: A Break for the Boss

Fidel Castro, 31, the bearded leader of Cuba's 13-month guerrilla rebellion against Dictator Fulgencio Batista, served sharp notice last week that he, and no one else, will be running Cuba when Batista falls. In an angry letter from his mountain hideout in Oriente province, he cut connections between his 26th of July Movement and six other organizations that got together in Miami last October to set up an anti-Batista joint council and draw up a pact. "While the leaders of the organizations that subscribe to this pact are abroad fighting an imaginary revolution," Castro charged, "the leaders of the 26th...

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