Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Associated Press lunch in Manhattan. Using a prompting device that enabled him to read without seeming to (see diagram, next page), the President eloquently replied to Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who recently insisted that U.S. policies toward Communism in general and Castro Communism in particular were based on "myths...
...Fidel Castro's anti-Yanqui rantings are so monotonously predictable that the U.S. often listens with only half an ear. Last week he struck a new and ominous note that commanded full attention. In a violent speech marking the third anniversary of the Bay of Pigs debacle, the Cuban beard demanded that the U.S. stop flying U-2 recon naissance planes over Cuba - or else. "These physical aggressions against our territory are intolerable," cried Castro. "If what they want is to provoke a war, they are going to have it - cost what it may. Let us prepare our surface...
Waiting for May Day. U.S. aerial reconnaissance has galled Castro ever since the October 1962 missile crisis. High-flying U-2 photo planes first discovered the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, watched their emplacement, and confirmed their hurried departure...
...John Kennedy once remarked that he didn't like to wake up in the morning and read newspaper stories about Khrushchev or Mao or Castro or any other unfriendly fellow. What he wanted was headlines about the President of the U.S., and he was engagingly candid about his desire for public "visibility...
...discontent that feeds Allende's candidacy. A physician who turned to politics, Allende prescribes massive reform for Chile's ills: 1) a strict, centrally planned economy; 2) "authentic" land reform, meaning the expropriation of all large farms; and 3) nationalization of the U.S. copper companies. He terms Castro a "political genius," has Fidel's picture on his office wall and a framed blowup of the Declaration of Havana hanging in the hall outside. He openly calls himself a Marxist. "But I am not a Communist," he says, "and that is very important for the U.S. to remember...