Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas millionare, Maher says his political enlightenment began at the age of 15, when someone gave him a copy of Fidel Castro's speech, "History Will Absolve Me." Last summer he went to Cuba with a group of students in defiance of the State Department...
...money," explained the program notes. "The exploitation of man by man on all fronts. In sports today, it is wholesome and pure." Then came 400 soldiers in olive green and East German helmets to snap through the U.S. manual of arms before goosestepping, in the best Soviet tradition, past Castro...
Next day, the mood changed. A grim, unsmiling Castro stood on a platform, joined by Raúl, President Osvaldo Dorticós and Minister of Industries Che Guevara. Castro gave the enthusiastic crowd of 100,000 a brief wave, unstrapped his ever-present .45 automatic, and stood through the introductions with nervous, twitching fingers. The Organization of American States had just voted diplomatic and economic sanctions against Cuba, and Castro was eager to strike back. "The OAS is garbage, a Yankee ministry of colonies," he railed. "The people of Cuba repudiate the insolent threats of armed aggression...
Wake Up, Raúl! For 3½ hours it went on, while Brother Raúl kept dozing off on the platform, only to be nudged awake by an amused Che Guevara. In sputtering defiance of the OAS, Castro issued his own "Declaration of Santiago de Cuba," accusing the U.S. of subverting Cuba and threatening to continue his attempts to foment revolution around Latin America. "Unless there is an end to the pirate attacks from the U.S. and other countries," he cried, "the people of Cuba will feel they have an equal right to help, with all resources available...
...press conference for visiting newsmen, Castro kept it up-this time about the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo. For two weeks, the Cubans have claimed U.S. marines shot and killed a Cuban sentry on the other side of the fence. The U.S. has flatly denied it. A group of Cubans suddenly fired a volley in the direction of a Marine guard post. Following orders, the mar-rines squeezed off two warning shots over the heads of the Cubans. No one was hit, says Washington, but an ambulance and a photographer immediately appeared on the Cuban side-and Castro was soon...