All week long, torrential rains pounded down on Cuba, endangering the vital sugar harvest already delayed by invasion and subsequent repression. Out went the orders from Castro's puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós: "Mill workers must voluntarily increase their workday to twelve hours." And with the crop crisis came the first rumbles of a reviving anti-Castro underground. A $300,000 sugar mill was burned, a bomb wounded a hated Castro military prosecutor, a phosphorous bomb fired a cinema. Havana radio blamed Exile Manolo Ray, who replied that his leftist, but bitterly anti-Communist M.R.P. underground is ready with more of the same. But...
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