Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fidel Castro demands the return of the Harvard spiders to Cuba. "They belong to the people of Cuba. We have expropriated them in absentia," Castro insists. He appeals to the UN, which regrets that it has no neutral observers left to send him... 146 Young Americans for Freedom depart Cambridge to fight in the Katangan army. "We are not to be confused with the Peace Corps," their leader explains. "We are not going to help Katanga, we're going to fight...
Journeying south to ignite the still uncaught fires of the Alliance for Progress, Kennedy said the expected things, and want beyond platitudes in declaring that violence and tyranny could not do as well as democratic methods in reforming society. That part of his message, with its implied indictment of Castro, he put most clearly at a state dinner in Bogota. Warning against "those who tell us that the only road to economic progress is by violent Communist revolution," Kennedy pointed to Western Europe, free and prosperous, and then to the contrast of Eastern Europe, grim, grey and captive. "They promise...
...They Just Want a Job." Miami has more than 80,000 refugees from Castro's Cuba, and others are arriving at the rate of 2,000 a week. Obviously, they pose economic and social problems to the community. But the Cubans themselves are more anxious than anyone else to help solve those problems. Back home, many of them were industrious, upper-middle-class citizens, with pleasant homes, cars and solid bank accounts. In Miami and other U.S. cities where they have settled, they are living on the frayed edge of poverty. They have gratefully accepted Government handouts-but they...
...Cuban refugees in New York. 2,000 in Chicago, 400 in New Orleans. But the vast majority prefer to stick together in Miami, even if it means privation. The climate, they point out, is similar to Cuba's-and, looking toward the happy day when Fidel Castro is gone, Miami will be only a short distance from home. Says Laureano Batista Falla, president of the exiled Christian Democratic Party: "What distinguishes them from other refugees that have to come to the United States is that they are here to fight to go back. They did not come here...
...British stripling agreed to defend him in a school debate over which of four prominent men should be jettisoned to save a sinking balloon, Billionaire U.S. Oilman J. Paul Getty promptly supplied his paladin with a suggested brief. Unaware that his hypothetical fellow travelers were to be Fidel Castro, British Playwright John Osborne and Philosopher-Demagogue Bertrand Russell, Getty wrote: "I am only 13 stone [182 Ibs.] and therefore probably lighter than the rest. If there are other millionaires there, I'm probably the youngest at 68, so the oldsters should go." Finally came the hard sell: "I probably...