Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starting the blockade prior to a meeting of the United Nations Security Council and the Organization of American States, the President restricted his own policy by precluding real multilateral opposition to the Castro regime...
...exchange of prisoners." That plea proved to be prophetic: in Berlin early this year, the Kennedy Administration released Abel to the Russians in exchange for captured U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers (TIME, Feb. 16). Negotiator of the deal: James B. Donovan. As in the current negotiations with Fidel Castro, Donovan played a murkily ambiguous role. He was supposedly acting as an attorney for Abel's putative wife. But in effect he was serving as a Kennedy Administration agent...
...image was shadowed by his intention to visit Fidel Castro in Cuba just two days after meeting President Kennedy in the White House. One of his first acts in Manhattan was to call on Cuba's President Osvaldo Dorticos, who next day denounced the U.S. in violent terms. In a mixture of Latin abrazo and the tradi tional French greeting, both men hugged and kissed each other. Linking the "kissing match" to Communism rather than to courtesy, the New York Mirror cried: "Ben Bella go home and kiss an Arab...
...reporters, he made an effort to redress his image by stressing that his trip to Cuba was not intended as a "commentary" on U.S. relations with Castro, and added: "On the other hand, without trying to be presumptuous, I hope to contribute something to the lessening of tension between the United States and Cuba." But Ben Bella's Foreign Minister later declared that any attempt to overthrow the regime "chosen" by the Cuban people would be a "threat to peace." In part, the Algerians insisted, their position is based on the fact that during the struggle with France...
Those who are out to stop Betancourt are tagged "extremists" by Venezuelans. Most of them are from the extreme left-members of the Communist Party, of the Castro-following Movement of the Revolutionary Left, of a Reddish faction of the left-of-center Republican-Democratic Union. Some are far-right opportunists who hate Betancourt for his insistent social and economic reforms. Their campaign is disjointed: occasional attacks on isolated villages in the hills, the murder of a few Caracas policemen, machine-gun forays on Caracas embassies, a Molotov cocktail thrown at a newspaper printing plant. Up to now, the bulk...