Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charges stem from a Castro-sponsored trip to Cuba which the three students and fifty-six others took last summer, traveling without the specially validated passports required by State Department rules. After their return, at hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee and elsewhere, the students amply demonstrated that they are silly and irresponsible. But their behavior should not obscure the fact that the travel ban they violated is remarkably bad policy...
...that a "Latin Republic" might want to shove itself into the 20th Century by means not wholly to our liking nor entirely dictated by our image. He is totally American in his inability to understand communism. "Now two revolutions smolder in the hemisphere: the Alliance for Progress and Castro communism. One is dedicated to democracy, justice, and economic growth; the other, conceived in bloodshed, is dedicated to violence, totalitarianism and the destruction of human freedom. The former will take time; the latter can come with the dawn. They cannot survive side by side. Latin Americans must choose between them." Time...
...coup claimed to replace a Communist - infiltrated government. In the Dominican Republic, army officers who first protected and then assassinated former dictator Rafael Trujillo complained of inefficiency and high unemployment when they threw democratically elected Juan Bosch out. They added that President Bosch's regime had been riddled with Castro sympathizers...
...fact that the army in many Latin American countries has repeatedly blocked reform has made young people cynical about democracy's possibilities. Some have turned toward Castro and the promise of Communism. They will continue to see little alternative to Castro until the United States is prepared to make sure democratic leaders can implement their reforms...
...source of battle information than all the official cables available in Washington. Hearst Editor Frank Conniff wrote that the New York Times's reporting on Viet Nam had misled the President; it was, he said, "a political time bomb," just as the Times's coverage of the Castro revolution in Cuba represented the Times's "loaded present to President Eisenhower...