Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full of soaring, vaguely leftist hopes for Cuba's future but has no clear program. Other Latin American leaders trust his democratic professions, hope that his shortcomings will not bring on disorder and another dictatorship...
...offer-Italian sporting rifles, ancient Mausers, nickel-plated revolvers, Springfields, Garands and carbines. Delivered, they cost an average of $1,000 each. Castro handled each munitions shipment with care and glee before passing it on to new recruits. "Bullets come by vintages, like wine," he explained, "especially Latin American bullets. Mexican '55 is a good year, '52 not so good...
Bonsai, since March 1957 Ambassador to Bolivia, has had to deal before with a thorny Latin American situation. In 1955, as Ambassador to Colombia, he was accredited to the government of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Distinctly not one of the diplomat types who deem it a simple duty to stay close to the boss, Spanish-fluent Philip Bonsai moved with ease among intellectuals and politicos in Colombia. Among them was Alberto Lleras Camargo, a leading Rojas oppositionist. Rojas put pressure on the State Department and the U.S. eventually withdrew Bonsai, but the urbane diplomat became a hero among Latin Americans...
...list of references for the job. Nearly all of Howard Smith's professional career has been spent in radio and TV reporting, and nearly all of it abroad. He went to work for United Press in London in 1939 right out of Oxford, where he was the first American undergraduate to head the Labour Club; he wore a sandwich board in front of No. 10 Downing Street in demonstrations against the Conservative government. After a short stint with U.P. he joined CBS as Berlin correspondent early...
...self-defeating. The New York Daily News larded its stories so lavishly with sarcasm ("The Deputy Premier showed a capitalistic-type interest in Macy's varied wares-and didn't steal a thing") that the reader was invited only to sympathize with the victim. The Chicago American vented its spleen in a front-page box: "Everyone is asking, 'Who sent for him?' " For the most part, the press attempted to balance its Mikoyan account with sound editorials and sharp cartoons. But even on the editorial pages, there were some solos of Mikoyan praise. "If all Soviet...