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...atmosphere in Cuba is just like it was in November 1958, right before Batista fell," reported a traveler from Havana last week. The traveler was only partly right; Fidel Castro is far stronger than Batista. But for the first time last week, the rebellion against Castro spread out to ordinary people and set the island alight with a curious kind of spontaneous, uncoordinated, often futile combustion. So wide and so fast did it spread that the exile leaders plotting against Castro in Miami and Manhattan lagged far behind...
...university, a third in a bakery, another apparently wrecked the control room of the giant, $20 million expropriated Shell Oil refinery. The worried regime narrowed its circle and last week more men were forced into jail, exile or ignominy. Among them: Major Humberto Sori Marin, Castro's first Agriculture Minister and chief justice of the war crimes trials-under house arrest; three Cuban diplomats in the U.S., including the alternate delegate to the Economic & Social Council of the Organization of American States-dismissed; Gustavo Hart, brother of Education Minister Armando Hart-defected to Venezuela...
...Bolivia to import large quantities of costly British coke to refine its relatively low-grade (30%) ore. It would put Bolivia in competition with the international tin cartel, thousands of expensive miles from potential markets. Bolivia would have to accept platoons of Soviet "technicians" and go through with the first Russo-Bolivian exchange of diplomats in history...
...Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Brazil arranged a six-month payments moratorium-but the next Brazilian ad ministration will have to resume payments. To meet the internal demand for dollars, the Bank of Brazil recently started selling (at a discount) certificates for dollars deliverable within 90 days. The first batch of $80 million must be redeemed in dollars beginning Feb. 1, the day after Quadros' inauguration...
...first public appearance without Britain's Princess Margaret since their marriage, ex-Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones ventured forth to a Photographic Information Council awards luncheon in London. After greeting old shutterbug pals, Tony nerved himself up to his first speech as a representative of the royal family. He's a one-camera-at-a-time man. Said he: "I can only tell you what I personally use a camera for. Basically, it is to record a moment-a moment that is vital-to give the viewer a sensation of liveliness, sadness, joy and so on. One sees people...