Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sports stadium. The ninth Central American and Caribbean games were under way in Jamaica, newest of the hemisphere's nations. In the first week of competition, Mexico won 30 gold medals and Puerto Rico won five. But the headlines went to Fidel Castro's big Cuban contingent-though not for its physical prowess. Politics was the game, and at that the Cubans put on quite a show...
Seeking to demonstrate Cuba's "socialist superiority," Castro's team had been in training for six months. Twice-weekly lectures on Marx and Lenin were supposed to put everybody in the right frame of mind. Said Castro himself, in a final pep talk: Cuba's athletes were going to Jamaica "not as athletes, but soldiers fighting the cause of socialism. There will be people who will try to kidnap you." As protection, he sent 20 secret-service men to guard his warriors; even the bat boy on Cuba's baseball team...
...high point was the weight lifting. Just as the match got under way one night, four of Castro's best weight lifters coolly walked off the stage of a Kingston theater where the competition was held and sprinted into a waiting getaway car driven by members of Jose Miro Cardona's anti-Castro Revolutionary Council. Several days later, the four and their coach, who had also slipped away, were flown to Miami, where they asked asylum. Said one: "We were just tired of being involved in the stupid struggle that has destroyed Cuba...
...Park then told the audience that the leader of the present government, General Park, to whom he bears no relation, is not a Castro, not even a DeGaulle, and that he will keep the promise made upon the day of the Coup, to return democratic government to Korea within two years
...sake of attracting foreign investment. The national debt has been cut, dollar reserves are up. An ardent champion of the Alliance for Progress, Lleras has pushed through land reform, higher income taxes, the first civil service in the history of Colombia. Though the Communists rail, he stands firm against Castro and flatly tells his people: "The new Cold War theater is clearly our hemisphere...