Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Curious Sequence. But if President Kennedy was reluctant to talk, others were not. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus said that as many as 25 Arkansas Air National Guardsmen had been recruited by the "Federal Government" to train anti-Castro Cubans. Some of the Arkansans, he said, flew combat missions over the Bay of Pigs-an assertion denied by the White House...
...invasion of Normandy, allowing those 1,500 brave Cubans to go into the Bay of Pigs there without having first destroyed the enemy air power or providing air cover." Nixon also offered his current solution for Cuba: throw up a "partial blockade" to cut off oil shipments to Castro, which would "have the effect, probably, of bringing the Communist government down...
...problem here is Castro, not Kennedy. With extremely few exceptions (I think three since last October), the Cuban government has consistently, refused to grant visas to American newsmen. Personally, I am among a large number of U.S. reporters--most of whom had attempted to report Cuba objectively in the past--who have seen their visa applications repeatedly turned down. It is my understanding that the State Department does not refuse a passport clearance to any newsman who has a Cuban visa...
...Leader of the Band. No one can be quite sure where Arosemena stands between left and right. Taking office, he spoke earnestly of his love of democracy, but refused to join other hemisphere nations in condemning Fidel Castro. Not until the military threatened him with the same fate as Velasco Ibarra did he agree to sever relations with Cuba...
First it was gasoline, then meat, butter, eggs, soap, toilet paper, garlic, onions, rice, beans, chicken, fish, coffee, shoes, and even, in this oft-steamy island paradise, beer. "Beer is unnecessary," said Fidel Castro, "in revolutionary Cuba." In their steady slide down the scale of living standards, Cubans heard last week that rationing would henceforth extend to clothing-shirts, trousers, dresses, and even to those snug slacks that Cuban women-and their men-love. Like any good Communist bureaucrat, the Maximum Leader an nounced through his Government Consolidated Products Enterprise that he was doing this so that clothes could...