Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American people be content with having punched both Castro and Khrushchev in the nose and got away with it, and direct Politician Kennedy to devote our considerable might to the promotion of peace rather than deliberate aggression and war provocation...
From that moment on, some of the momentum seemed to go out of the U.S.'s new drive against Soviet Communism and Castro's Cuba...
Thant organized a 19-man team to go to Cuba. At his urgent request, the U.S. obligingly lifted its blockade and aerial surveillance. Thant flew to Havana-and ran into a cold climate. Ordinarily, Fidel Castro is one of the world's most assiduous airport greeters. But he did not show up to welcome Thant, and when the two finally did meet, Castro had his gat ostentatiously bolstered on his hip. In his long, rambling talks, Castro sputtered that Khrushchev had sold him down the river. As to the bargain the Russian Premier had made with Kennedy, Castro cried...
...Roosevelt was known throughout the world as a lecturer and writer, one who frequently advocated unpopular causes. She was one of the first prominent white persons to fight for civil rights of Negroes; she headed the unsuccessful attempt to swap tractors for the prisoners seized by Fidel Castro in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion...
...Fence. The doubtful nations were Mexico and Brazil, two of the hemisphere's biggest powers and the two nations that have consistently balked at taking a hard line against Castro. Any muscle flexing by the U.S. inevitably recalls to Mexicans the days when the U.S. sent troops into Mexico and U.S. ships bombarded Veracruz. But now the Communist invasion of the Caribbean was a clear and present danger-to Mexicans as well as Americans. Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos got advance notification of Kennedy's speech while he was in Manila on his way back from...