Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House, Kowalski has opposed U.S. atomic testing, criticized U.S. policy toward Castro's Cuba as unduly harsh, and championed organized labor (Jimmy Hoffa recently made a special trip to Connecticut to put the Teamsters' seal on Kowalski's candidacy). He also got ideas about the Senate, and while Ribicoff played cozy (he still has not formally announced, hopes to be drafted at the Democratic state convention next week), Kowalski went to work. His old sponsor, John Bailey, now also Democratic national chairman, has tried every sort of persuasion and pressure to get him out of the race...
...Festival's approach to Richard II is, fortunately, straight. Artistic director Jack Landau has departed; gone with him are the potato-chip and Venetian-blind settings, and the trick gimmicks. So we are spared a transplantation to Cuba with a Castro-Bolingbroke...
...revolt started one morning a fortnight ago, when restless crowds began calling for food and denouncing Castro. Before long, thousands of people jammed seven blocks of the business district. When a loudspeaker truck appeared, urging all to go home, promising that food would soon be abundant, the mob overturned the truck, forced the driver to yell, "Down with Communism!" The riot was not quelled until crack troops arrived and occupied the town after sporadic shooting. The toll of wounded or dead is not known; an estimated 400 demonstrators were jailed...
...past, Castro has been content to denounce the opposition at mass rallies. But now, apparently realizing that words are not enough, he decided on a show of military force, and chose Cárdenas as the place...
...tanks, mortars, four-barreled ZPU-4 Czech antiaircraft guns. Troops in Soviet-style helmets marched grimly past. Overhead thundered three Russian-made MIG jet fighters. Television carried the show to every town in Cuba-along with a warning from the reviewing stand by President Osvaldo Dorticós (Castro did not attend). Denouncing "the wretched counter-revolutionary provocation that took place here," Dorticós spoke in a double negative, but the assembled peasants got the idea. If they "do not allow counter-revolutionary parasites to get away with one single act of provocation," said Dorticós, "we will...