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...carefully did not tell the Cuban people that Fidel Castro was giving up one of his most important posts. The official announcement last week merely stated that the all-powerful National Agrarian Reform Institute, which runs Cuba's communized agriculture, was getting a new boss. He is Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, a longtime Communist economic theoretician and, next to Secretary-General Bias Roca, top man in the party's hierarchy...
...that time, Otilio Ulate, a conservative newspaper publisher, was a clear winner in the presidential elections. In second place was Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia. an ex-President (1940-44) who still controlled the lame-duck Congress and got the election overturned as "fraudulent." Not until Ulate's campaign manager, a fiery, reform-minded planter named José ("Pepe") Figueres, rose in revolt and won a bloody, five-week civil war was Ulate able to take office. Figueres was elected President in his own right in 1953, went on to become the nation's most prominent political...
Trying to persuade the hard-line anti-Castro nations to tone down their demands in the interests of unanimity, Rusk worked for hours in his suite at the San Rafael Hotel, in a Cantegril Country Club bungalow, over chilled coffee at the Bife de Oro restaurant-patiently listening, explaining, mediating...
...gone to Punta del Este hoping to form a solid front with the twelve other nations* that had voted to hold the conference in the first place, and that were presumably prepared to vote for the same sort of judgment handed down against the Dominican Republic of Dictator Rafael Trujillo: joint diplomatic and economic sanctions. Only one vote was necessary for the two-thirds majority of 14 needed for approval. Six† were opposed to sanctions but apparently agreeable to less drastic action. Uruguay decided to wait...
...always so. Born in Mexico, Gloria moved to New York when her father, Writer José Rafael Rubio, crossed ideologies with Dictator Porfirio Diaz. In 1933, she was shipped off to Europe, and two years later married Count Franz von Furstenberg. When Hitler came to power, Gloria and her two children, Franz and Delores, fled to Madrid while her husband stayed on in Germany. In Spain, she got a "friendly" divorce that was to help her get exit visas, but the visas never came through, and the count married another woman (and fathered Actress Betsy von Furstenberg). Gloria met Guinness...