The Press: Fidel's Kind of Freedom

During his first year as Cuba's boss, Premier Fidel Castro has made it increasingly plain to visiting newsmen that they are working on borrowed time. Non-Cuban correspondents, writing the truth about Cuba as they see it, have been harried: the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois (see below), after switching from praise to criticism of Castro, was refused food, drink, and haircuts in Havana, finally hounded right out of Cuba; James Buchanan of the Miami Herald was banished from the island after being convicted of conspiracy against Castro's regime (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week Castro's campaign against the outside press picked up intensity...

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