Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official part of Fidel Castro's marathon visit to Moscow was over, and his beaming host had a few words of farewell before sending the honored guest off to southern Russia to loll in the sun for a while. With Castro standing beside him in Lenin Stadium, Nikita Khrushchev by turns praised Cuba's heroic "revolt against tyranny," pleaded for coexistence with the U.S., and angrily threatened nuclear war if the U.S. dared lay a hand on Cuba. He even rang in the American Declaration of Independence, quoting: "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive...
...basic mission of the Special Forces, however, is to teach rather than to fight. This they are doing abroad with little publicity. Last year they sent 63 teams into 15 Castro-shadowed Latin American nations, instructed 3,415 foreign soldiers. In Venezuela, for example, they ran some 1,500 Guardia National security forces through jungle courses in which silhouettes sprang from trees at trainees, who learned to pump at least two rifle shots into the figures within five seconds...
...Fidel Castro's Caribbean island is the most conspicuous display of Communist penetration in Latin America, but it is far from the whole show. In remote corners and pockets of the hemisphere, there are places where the Communists are either in effective control of a region or very near to it. One such corner is the ruggedly scenic Mexican state of Michoacán, on the Pacific coast north of the resort town of Acapulco (see map). Admits one of the state's own officials: "What we have here is a well-cultivated Communist zone...
...scene at Miami International Air port was sadly familiar. A Pan American DC-6B rolled to a halt, and TV cameras panned in as 115 refugees filed from the plane. But these passengers were from Franç Duvalier's Haiti - not Castro's Cuba-and they were the first of 1,300 U.S. citizens advised by the State Department to leave because of continued deterioration on the small Caribbean island. In a week of urgent diplomatic maneuver and in an atmosphere of violence and vengeance, everyone waited to see whether the dictator who calls himself "Papa Doc" would...
...Cuba, the HYRC said that "the Administration must repudiate its guarantee to the Castro dictatorship against attempts to restore the freedom of Cuba. Cuba must not be allowed to remain a privileged sanctuary for Communist activities against hemispheric peace and security...