Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessity is rationed, the country is in economic confusion, "voluntary" fund drives are confiscatory, wages are falling through the cracks in the floor, and men and women alike are being drafted for forced labor in the fields. But last week on the wooden anniversary of the Cuban revolution. Fidel Castro was still the picture of Communist bluster, and his helpless people still cheered obediently...
...Plaza de la Revolución screamed supersonic MIG-21 Russian fighters, now flown, said announcers, "by Cuban youngsters." Below rolled an hour-long parade of Russian-made tanks, artillery, armored cars, rocket launchers-and battalion after battalion of tough-looking, Russian-trained troops. "We alone." shouted Castro, "could not have resisted imperialism-the blockades, the aggressions, the economic strangulation. But with these arms, we can fight against the best-equipped forces of the imperialist Army...
...weeks, bands of Castroite guerrillas have been roaming the Dominican hills, waging a hit-and-run war against the three-man junta that rules the Caribbean island nation. The guerrillas call themselves the 14th of June Movement (in imitation of Castro's 26th of July group), and estimates of their strength run to 250 men. While they pose no immediate threat to the government, their nuisance bombs and countryside ambushes make everybody nervous...
...Castroites' leader. After days of searching, troops moved in on a gathering of guerillas at a sawmill near the town of San José de las Matas in the central mountains. When the shooting ended, Manuel Tavárez Justo, 35, avowed Marxist and admirer of Castro, was dead, along with 14 of his comrades. Five others were captured. At first, Tavárez Justo's death was called a suicide, but later the government said that he had been shot to death in a gunfight with the soldiers. All 15, said the communique, were buried...
When the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, Hewlett Johnson, 89, finally retired last May, Anglican churchmen breathed a long sigh of relief. But "the Red Dean" shows no sign of letup in his Communist Partygoing. Now he is off to Havana to help celebrate the fifth anniversary of Fidel Castro's regime. "He was absolutely determined to go," said his wife. "I must say he has been very well lately, but it is a long journey...