CUBA: Tough Tactics

Out of the impenetrable Sierra Maestra, where they had hidden for 13 months, poured the men of Cuban Rebel Chief Fidel Castro last week. Twenty miles out from the foothills, they surrounded the bustling sugar port of Manzanillo (pop. 100,000), attacked and halted Havana-bound trains and buses, burned automobiles, rice and sugar installations, then vanished at nightfall.

Two days later, 15 miles to the east, in the farming village of Veguitas (pop. 8,000), some 200 rebels, reportedly led by Castro himself, overran the village army post, grabbed food, scooped up the money in the post office, then withdrew after laying...

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