Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call came in late December from Attorney General Robert Kennedy to an old family friend in Boston. Said Bobby: "Castro wants an extra $2,900,000, and everybody wants to get the prisoners home to Miami by Christmas." Said the friend: "I'm all for that." Asked Kennedy: "Can you help out toward that $2,900,000?" Replied the friend: "I'll call you back in an hour." He was as good as his word: within an hour, Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing had pledged to raise $1,000,000 to help achieve the release...
Covering the Loan. Castro's $2,900,000 demand (retired General Lucius Clay underwrote the rest) had been in addition to the $53 million he was getting in drugs, food and other goods in exchange for the prisoners. Last week the list of donors to that $53 million was being filled out; some companies had given or pledged more than they had been listed for in previous, partial lists (TIME, Jan. 11). Among them: American Cyanamid Corp., Pearl River, N.Y., $3,300,000 (instead of the previously reported $1,000,000); Richardson-Merrill, N.Y.C., $1,337,000 (instead...
...Kennedy Administration, which has nudged and guided the ransom payments throughout, made its first direct contribution when the Agriculture Department released 5,000,000 lbs. of dried skim milk from its store of 500 million lbs. for shipment to Castro. Eventually, the dried milk shipments are expected to reach 20 million lbs.-an estimated $5,000,000 worth. The donation of surplus foods to charity for overseas shipment, explained the department, has been a regular practice. Besides, repayment is expected from the Cuban Families Committee-some...
...period of diplomatic quiet had thus settled over the Cuba situation. But upward of 20,000 Soviet troops remain in Cuba. For so long as they do-and for so long as Castro remains in power-Cuba will still be a crisis point...
Guatemala's President Miguel Ydigoras has been the most vigorous opponent of Castro among all Latin American leaders. The Bay of Pigs invasion brigade trained on Guatemalan soil, and Ydigoras even offered to let anti-Castro Cubans form a government in exile there. But last week, facing strong pressure from the left and right, Ydigoras ordered all anti-Castro Cubans rounded up and expelled from Guatemala. "It is time,'' he said, "for other Latin American countries to do their part." As for the U.S., he told a reporter, "I would like to live in Florida...