Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manuel Ray, former Minister of Public Works under Castro, yesterday described his efforts to undo the "destructive revolution" in Cuba and to promote peaceful reform elsewhere in Latin America...
Joao Goulart, deposed president of Brazil, hated the United States and countries that fawningly follow its policies. He refused to support anti-Castro sanctions. He was an anti-American, pro-Brazilian radical social reformer who admired Communist China but was too great a nationalist to be Communist himself...
Despite the act of state doctrine, the U.S. District Court in Manhattan decided the sugar claim in favor of C.A.V. Castro's expropriations of U.S.-owned enterprises, said the court, violated international law in several ways, notably by failing to provide adequate compensation. The Court of Appeals agreed. When Banco Nacional appealed to the Supreme Court, the U.S. Justice and State departments urged the court to invoke the traditional doctrine and rule in favor of the Castro government. Castro's expropriations did indeed violate international law, said the State Department, but grievances arising from the seizures should...
...Castro it was a less than satisfactory victory. He will not get the money, at least not until he mends his ways. The U.S. Government has frozen all Cuban assets in the U.S.. and the $175,251 will go into the freezer...
...Many boards of directors are persuaded to drop regional or national names as their firms' international business increases; the Texas Co. adopted the name of the gas it markets, becoming just plain Texaco, and no one can blame the Cuban-American Sugar Co. for making a post-Castro change in its name to North American Sugar Industries...