Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Talk, Talk, Talk." Moving west, however, Barry found audiences more to his liking. In San Antonio, Texas, Republicans enthusiastically welcomed their favorite, and Barry responded with a hard-hitting blast at a Kennedy Administration foreign policy that "stands wall-eyed in Berlin and cross-eyed in Paris and blind in Cuba." The Administration policy, he cried, "responds like a high-strung puppy to any mention of colonialism but shies like a frightened colt from the real problems of development in underdeveloped lands. Such nations are free in name only. And the present response to their problems has been a response...
Among the most powerful of the men who brought him down were two old hands at conspiracy: General Antonio Imbert Barreras, 42, and General Luis Amiama Tio, 49, sole survivors of the plotters who killed Dictator Trujillo. Under Bosch, Imbert controlled the police. He made no secret that he put more faith in bullets than ballots. "This coun try doesn't need elections," he once said. "One party wins. The others won't respect it. There'll be hell...
...court-martial; they flogged and tortured 1,000 others, many of them women and children. The British met no real resistance, did not lose a single man. "Hole is doing a splendid service shooting every black man who cannot account for himself," one officer gaily wrote. "Nelson at Port Antonio hanging like fun by court-martial. I hope you will not send any black prisoners. Do punish the blackguards well...
...quintet played the four movements of a Mozart divertimento the girls buzzed. At the end of each movement they applauded loudly. After playing some Hindemith, the quintet demonstrated their instruments and let some of the girls try them. Then the quintet finished with Ibert and the San Antonio chorale of Haydn...
...Marti Airport in Havana, 50 flaxen-haired Soviet technicians clutch cardboard boxes of rum still stenciled with the anachronistic legend: "Let's go to Cuba, the inviting island next door." Soviet-piloted MIG-21s scorch over the countryside near the airbase at San Antonio de los Baños; Soviet freighters dot Havana harbor, new arrivals unloading daily...