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CUBA: Cuba, Springtime

Cuba's persistent restlessness brought murder and sudden death last week. In Santa Clara City somebody who disliked President Gerardo Machado planted a bomb in the Hotel Santa Clara. When it exploded it killed one Manuel Gonzales. 32, a Spanish salesman for lottery tickets. A small bomb exploded in front of a Havana tax office. A policeman reached the scene just in time to have his left hand blown off by a second, bigger bomb. At Guanabacoa a earful of men poured slugs from sawed-off shotguns into Military Supervisor Captain Oscar Pau, who...

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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