Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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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...
...bearded strongman, speaking at a gathering of commercial workers, suggested that barbers, beauticians, clerks, waiters and chauffeurs were in a particularly good position to turn in their customers. "Every servant," added Castro, "every employee of one of these rich men that attack the revolution, is a working and humble Cuban who defends the revolution and maintains his vigil." Two days later, to "hit them where it hurts, in the pocketbook," Castro's Cabinet decreed that all property of convicted "counter-revolutionaries" will be seized-as broad a license for governmental stealing as was ever written...
...himself arrested by Fidel Castro's police (TIME, Dec. 21). Accused of concealing the escapee-an anti-Castro plotter named Austin Frank Young-Buchanan for 13 days languished in a cell with up to 18 other prisoners, dirty, unshaven and scared. Last week, with scarcely any advance notice, Cuban authorities hustled Reporter Buchanan off to Pinar del Rio province for trial...
Scene of the hearing was the movie theater of a Cuban army base, where the piano was shoved aside to make room for the bench. Five uniformed judges sat at a table while guards with machine guns watched spectators munching sandwiches and sipping soft drinks. At times the presiding judge would snap his fingers and send a boy off for coffee. After a two-hour trial and 20 minutes of deliberation, the court produced a four-page typewritten verdict of guilty. The sentence: 14 years at hard labor, suspended on condition that Buchanan get out of Cuba in 24 hours...
...going to be awfully rough," he said, "for the next newsman who goes down there and gets arrested." This was exactly the message that Fidel Castro wanted the case of Jim Buchanan to deliver: a warning to the press, both Cuban and foreign, to play the game Castro's way, or else...