Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years of power, Fidel Castro has nationalized, "intervened" or otherwise appropriated $1 billion worth of U.S. investments in Cuba. Last week, on the eve of the tenth anniversary celebration of his 26th of July movement, he grabbed about the only thing left to take-aside from the big naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Castro "expropriated" the $1,200,000, seven-story former U.S. embassy building on the Havana waterfront...
Under well-established international practice, embassy property is regarded as inviolable even after a break in diplomatic relations. Castro, who needs no precedents, said he was merely retaliating for the recent freeze clamped on Cuban assets in the U.S. He ordered out the Swiss mission that has occupied and managed the embassy for the U.S. since...
Washington protested. The Swiss simply rejected the decree, calling it "unacceptable"-an attitude that seemed to take the Cubans by surprise. If Castro decides to use force to oust the Swiss from the building, the U.S. will probably hale Cuba before the U.N. and charge it with violating international...
...sent troops and armored cars to join the fight; cops by the hundreds chased around frantically trying to sort out friend from foe. An order went out to legitimate police to wrap white handkerchiefs around their heads. That only made them better targets. Rumors swept Caracas that the pro-Castro Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) had attacked the prison and freed all 800 inmates. The report was proved false, but the FALN rejoiced in the publicity and Communist terrorists got in on the free-for-all with their own bombing and sniping...
...Beard, Fidel's revolutionary sympathies lie with Mao, but he knows better than to bite Nikita's hand, and last week he dutifully endorsed the Moscow line. Still, Red China has not given up hope of converting Castro. Cuba is one of the few places in the world where both Chinese and Russian technicians remain at work. This month Peking happily proclaimed that its experts have helped the Cubans to raise 25,000 Peking ducks...