Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expect anything closer to "a true nuclear partnership." The lack of political integration also hamstrings NATO as "an instrument for effective political consultation," and Ball decried the "rigid philosophical differences" that prevent NATO from enforcing sanctions against Cuba. Without naming Britain or France, both of whom trade with Castro, he put his finger on NATO's real problem: its members' "limited sense of world responsibility-as distinct from national interest...
...Washington, U.S. intelligence sources quickly denied any new undercover campaign against Castro. The U.S., said a spokesman, has not slipped arms into Cuba since just before the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961. Castro may have uncovered one of those old caches. But the greater likelihood was that he had found it long ago, and had just now decided to make an issue...
...possibility was that he might be trying to whip up his people against a new attempt at guerrilla warfare by some of the 300,000 anti-Castro Cubans living in exile. The exiles have been relatively quiet since the Bay of Pigs, but now they are on the move again-with or without U.S. help. Numbers of young exiles, many of them with U.S. Army training, have disappeared from Miami and other cities recently; exile guerrilla-training camps are reported operating in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and other Central American hideaways. At least one of these is run by Manuel Artime...
Shoot If You Must. With this notso-sweet mess on his hands, Castro spent the week growling at the U.S. and doing his best to convince the world that he really means to shoot down a U-2 reconnaissance plane. Sipping a brandy-and-soda at a Japanese reception in Havana, he insistently told newsmen that he was willing to go to war to stop the U.S. from keeping an aerial eye on his Communist island. "We will prevent these flights to the limits of what our weapons can do," Castro said. And then, for the first time, he confirmed...
...these days of Fidel Castro and the Alliance for Progress, the Latin American peasant has taken his place with the Mets fan as one of nature's most familiar and least understood noblemen. Silhouetted against a tropical sunset, there he stereotypically stands, leaning on his hoe and dreaming dreams of land reform and a greater gross national product per capita...