Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro F.A.L.N. may not be able to gather much popular support in Venezuela, but it is adept at making mischief. Posing as government narcotics agents, several F.A.L.N. members last week abducted visiting Spanish Soccer Star Alfredo Di Stéfano, 37. From a hideout in Caracas the F.A.L.N. issued bulletins, even held a press conference to exhibit their prisoner, while Venezuelan police scurried helplessly about looking for them. Finally, 56 hours after his abduction, Di Stéfano was released unharmed. On the street the first cop he approached refused to believe he was really Di Stéfano...
After defying a State Department travel ban and junketing around Cuba for a month as Fidel Castro's guests, those 58 U.S. "students" ran up against quite a problem: getting home. No nation in the Western hemisphere seemed willing to let them fly in direct from Cuba, and after a trying month of delay they were forced to take a plane to Madrid. There, at last, a few of them seemed to have second thoughts about Castroland. Clinton M. Jencks, 19, a psychology student at San Francisco State College, had his Castro-style beard shaved off and frankly declared...
Only Whisker-Deep. Machismo is still the element that separates Latin American leaders from the also-rans. In pre-Castro Cuba, the army of Dictator Fulgencio Batista respected its leader almost as much for his manliness and his brood of illegitimate children as for the military daring that first brought him to power in 1933. Castro is another story. Though he has the whiskery look of virility, and was considered muy macho for invading Cuba with only 81 men, his he-man rating fell sharply after he let Khrushchev pull out his missiles, and his love life, in the opinion...
...Castro also admitted that the revolution's dreams of rapid industrialization will have to wait. Agriculture, he said, "will be the base of our economy" for the next decade. "Why hurry to make a steel industry now when there are other more urgent things to be done?" Among the urgent tasks is the restoration of Cuban agriculture to the production levels it reached under capitalism. Last week the official Havana newspaper Hoy reported glumly that the 1963 sugar crop is the smallest since...
...Moscow's consternation, the only Communist nation that has not yet spoken out one way or the other in the worldwide "referendum" is Cuba. Despite the $1,000,000 a day that Russia is pouring into his island commune, Fidel Castro is still angry over Khrushchev's withdrawal of Soviet rockets last fall. Trying to make the Soviet leader sweat, Castro is obviously attempting to boost his price for supporting Russia in its struggle with the Chinese. But there is little doubt that Cuba will ultimately sign the treaty, for Castro needs Russia...