Cuba: Twice Around the World

For days, Fidel Castro had been promising Cubans a big surprise on the July 26th anniversary of his unsuccessful 1953 attack on Dictator Fulgencio Batista's regime. The great day came and went. No surprise. Said Castro, in his best who—me? manner: "The revolution does not have to await a date; revolution is a process." Apparently he had decided, perhaps on Moscow's advice, to go slower in proclaiming the next step in Communizing the country. The only real surprise of the week was the hijacked Eastern Air Lines Electra that landed unexpectedly (the...

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