Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marines & Guerrillas. Last week's rebellion, the second in a month, broke out in the marine corps. Given a little more luck, Betancourt might have put it down with a minimum of fighting. Striking before dawn, three malcontent pro-Castro officers imprisoned the naval base's commanders and started broadcasting a call to rebellion. Their appeal was ignored. Within hours loyal navy units had won back the base and arrested the rebel officers and their followers. But the rebels were in control just long enough to dispatch a force of 700 marines to occupy the city of Puerto...
...Council is drawing the nation's middle-road parties into a common, anti-Communist front. Window-smashing mobs can still raise a ruckus in Santo Domingo (formerly Ciudad Trujillo), but now, says one political leader, "each time we have trouble, we have less trouble." The biggest pro-Castro party has lost two-thirds of its original 150,000 members. An anti-Communist national labor federation has won away most of the country's organized workers; anti-Communist student groups have won out in the Dominican Students' Federation...
Segregationists in the Deep South are collecting money to ship the N.A.A.C.P. doll to the North-you wind it up and it moves into your neighborhood. Wind up the Fidel Castro doll and it turns red. Wind up the Nikita Khrushchev doll and it tries to bury...
...Pogo, Walt Kelly's pseudo-sophisticated comic strip, spoke a kind of Pig-Russian and bore an unmistakable resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev. He even talked like Khrushchev. "You forget prominent Russian proverb!" he confided to his companion, a bearded, cigar-smoking goat with a remarkable resemblance to Fidel Castro: "The shortage will be divided among the peasants." The goat broke out lunch-cigars and sugar ("One thing my country got like the dickens! Is sugar! y tabacos!")-and the two settled down to a dialectical argument in dialect...
...taken over 12,350 acres of rich coastal land, have fought pitched battles with the landlords' hired gunmen, and brought Brazilian infantry troops double-timing to the Northeast in regimental strength. What holds back the revolution is lack of arms and the Communists' own blunders. As in Castro's Cuba, the old-line party members regard Juliāo as "an opportunist" and seek to undercut his popularity with the peasants...