Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Standing up and saying "No!" to Khrushchev has done more for American prestige in this part of the world than 20 American spacemen landing on the moon. Turks-"fiercely anti-Russian"-have complete confidence in the wisdom of America's attitude toward Khrushchev and Castro...
There were dutiful cheers from the faithful, but the London Daily Express' Colin Lawson, filing from Havana, reported that "Fidel Castro has taken his biggest knock in popularity since he came down from the hills four years ago." So had his Russian pals. When Lawson first arrived in Cuba a fortnight earlier, newspaper headlines shouted CUBA is NOT ALONE, and front pages were full of photographs of Russian troops on the march. When Khrushchev backed down, the pictures disappeared. "Discreetly, but nevertheless with emphasis." reported Lawson, "many Cubans now show their feelings about Khrushchev. One or two badge-carrying...
Call to Terror. The full measure of Castro's fury at his humiliation came clear in the radio messages crackling across the Caribbean from Havana: "This is a call to terror . . . Attack U.S. citizens and their properties . . ." Here and there throughout Latin America, street riots erupted and were easily put down. Only in Venezuela was there real trouble. Hours after the call to terror from Havana, four explosions shook the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, where foreign oil companies have 9,000 wells pumping 2,400,000 bbl. of oil daily. The blasts wrecked four offshore electric transformer stations...
Venezuela's tough-minded and hard-pressed President Romulo Betancourt, a liberal who is a dedicated enemy of Castro's, had already started preparing his country for a state of mobilization on the ground that Cuba "stands as a constant threat to our security." He now sent battle dressed marines to stand vigil over the oilfields and put one-half of Venezuela under virtual martial...
...acted inflexibly and impolitically in cutting the sugar quota, severing relations and sabotaging their economy; but Castro's readiness to accept Soviet support proves him a congenital communist. And now that he has (or had) missile bases, the mistakes of the past are irrelevant, anyway...