Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami's International Airport, a stocky, white-haired man wearily faced newsmen. New York Lawyer James B. Donovan was just back from Havana, but he could offer only the haziest account of his effort to ransom 1,113 Cuban prisoners captured by Castro after the collapse of the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961. "The negotiations haven't broken down," said Donovan. "There are simply some points that must be resolved." He had made "concrete offers" to Castro, and "now we must await resolutions"-meaning wait for Castro's next move...
What had he offered Castro? Drugs, medicines and baby foods, said Donovan. "Not one dollar in cash is involved...
...grim occasion for Negotiator Donovan. His bursitis was paining him, and he was terribly tired. When he stood up at the end of the press conference, he wobbled so alarmingly that policemen hurried to his aid. He had spent eight nerve-grating days waiting around in Havana. Castro had deigned to see him only twice, behaving with the assurance of a blackmailer in a society with no law against blackmail...
After prodding by the United Nations, Britain promised that negotiations would certainly resume this September. But the United Kingdom, under great pressure from the United States to enforce some kind of economic blockade of Cuba, has become increasingly concerned about Dr. Jagan's trade relations with the Castro regime. And it does not look as if the British government is in any hurry to grant independence to a neutralist Guiana...
...ship owned by a firm engaged in Soviet-Cuba traffic. This, too, would make it difficult for ships to pick up transatlantic loads in both directions-and one-way loads are not profitable. At week's end. unofficial negotiations for the release of Bay of Pigs invaders from Castro prisons approached a climax. However welcome, it would do nothing to loosen the Soviet grip on the island...