Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Regarding the ransom paid to Castro for the Bay of Pigs fiasco, should not the label have been "In the Red" rather than "In the Black" [March...
...Anti-Castro Cuban raiders nowadays buy their 2O-mm. cannons through the mail from Finland, make their dog tags on bus station souvenir coin machines. The raiders have largely deserted the Florida coast, and operate mainly from the Bahamas, escaping detection in the maze of 700 islands. Now and then one of their boats makes a dash for Cuba to drop off guns and supplies, shoot up a shore, maybe even fire at a Russian ship...
...coup was not aimed at Ydigoras-one of Central America's stoutest anti-Castro fighters, though weakened by a corrupt and ineffective regime at home. It was, instead, designed to prevent the comeback of a man cordially hated both by Ydigoras and his soldiers: Juan José Arévalo, 58, President of Guatemala from 1945 to 1951, an anti-Yankee (The Shark and the Sardines) leftist who permitted Communists in his government. Living in exile in Mexico City, Arévalo promised to return to Guatemala on March 31, install himself as a presidential candidate in next November...
...Cuba that planned to convene in Brazil last week. All of Fidel's overseas friends were expected: Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Russian Author Vanda Vasilevskaya, Mexico's ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, British Guiana's Janet Jagan, and a couple hundred more. Castro planned to send a large delegation; placards were printed and street demonstrations planned to take place in São Paulo and Rio. The organizers felt so sure of themselves that they sent a delegation trooping into the office of Foreign Minister Hermes Lima with a request for courtesies...
Killing the Splendor. The same sad sounds are heard from other voices, other rooms. Ray Castro, owner of four top Chicago restaurants (Jacques, Maison Lafite, Café de Paris, La Maisonette), has canceled plans to open a $150,000 supper club, says that the decline in his business during the past three months means that he will pay $21,000 less in taxes and his employees will get considerably reduced bonuses. In Detroit's fanciest restaurants, the London Chop House and the Caucus Club, business is off about 25%, and the entertainment has been reduced accordingly. At Trader...