fighting continues in Havana. Havana, cuba: Armed Rebel supporters of Fidel Castro take shelter behind a monument on a street in Havana, during renewal of fighting bewtween Batista followers and the rebels, early January 2nd. Fighting has now died down to a minimum however, and the city awaits the triumphal entry tomorrow of the bearded leader himself, Fidel Castro, who has been in continuous combat with the vanquished Batista for 25 months. today he is in Santiago de Cuba, where he proclaimed Dr. Manuel Urrutia as provisional President. At the same time, Ramon Barquin, who assumed command of the Cuban army yesterday, proclaimed in a radio broadcast that he had placed the armed forces at Castro's Disposal. January 2nd 1959.