Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing Hostile. In his performance at the U.N. General Assembly, Frondizi was no less adroit, carefully tuning his remarks to his audience. He quickly identified himself with the world's underdeveloped nations ("No backward country is fully independent"); he showed proper concern about Castro's Cuba by calling for "representative democracy in the entire American continent," then softened the sting by again insisting on absolute nonintervention.* As for the cold war, said Frondizi, "when we proclaim the fact that we are members of the Western and Christian world, we are not doing so in order to create antagonistic...
...trying to get their children out of the country. At Havana's Jose Marti Airport last week, adults with airplane tickets were implored to give their seats to children. Some Pan American flights arriving in Miami have as many as 60 children on board, many traveling alone. When Castro's police halted one recent flight carrying 40 children, parents raised such a howl in the airport lobby that the order was rescinded. Behind the new exodus is a new fear: that Castro is planning to take children away from their families in order to train them in Communism...
...uproar started when the anti-Castro underground circulated copies of what it said was a new decree soon to come from the government. Under the decree, all children would remain with their parents "until they are three years old, after which they must be entrusted for physical and mental education to the Organization de Circulos Infantiles"-Castro's network of state nurseries. Children from three to ten would live in government dormitories in their home provinces, would be permitted to visit their families ''no less than two days per month." But those older than ten would...
...Will Bury." Cubans were prepared to believe the underground. Since taking power, Castro has worked tirelessly to mold his nation's youth into loyal-and militant-Communist cadres. Reading primers assure that the first name youngsters learn to spell is Fidel or Raúl, that their first animal stories are set on collective farms, that their first bogeymen are Yanqui imperialists. With piping voices, Cuba's fourth-graders sing a jingle taught by their energetic teachers...
After school, boys and girls are herded into the Association of Rebel Youth and the Rebel Pioneers. Castro put his own twelve-year-old son, Fidelito, into uniform, gave him a submachine gun to play with, finally shipped him off to the U.S.S.R. with 2,000 other youngsters for "technical training...