Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dallas Oligarchy Theory," argued by Author Thomas Buchanan, has it that the assassination was engineered by a Texas oil millionaire who thought Kennedy stood in his way to domination of the world petroleum market. The "Cuba-Framed Theory," proposed by Fidel Castro, holds that Oswald's activities in Fair Play for Cuba groups were faked so that, assuming he escaped, Washington would figure he had fled to Cuba, and would thus have an excuse to invade. The "Red Execution Theory," pushed by Right-Wing Intellectual Revilo P. Oliver, has it that Oswald was ordered by Moscow to shoot Kennedy...
...April 1965, Santo Domingo exploded once again, and Martin was summoned to the White House to serve once again in that hapless country. President Johnson made clear that U.S. actions would be guided by two main objectives: 1) averting a bloodbath and protecting American lives, and 2) preventing a Castro takeover. Hurriedly dispatched to Santo Domingo, Martin spent weary days negotiating with the rebels and mustering the facts to guide U.S. policy...
Martin reports that Fidel Castro's agents, exploiting the country's "politics of annihilation," had plotted ever since Trujillo's assassination "to seize control of the capital's streets, the first step in the classic Marxist revolutionary pattern." Francisco Caamano Deno, the rabble-rousing, opportunistic army colonel who led the revolt, was portrayed by New York Times Correspondent Tad Szulc as a well-meaning nationalist. Martin has a slightly different assessment: "I had met no man who I thought might become a Dominican Castro-until I met Caamano. He was winning a revolution from below...
Like the anti-Castro fugitives from Cuba, the Vietnamese bicker about politics back home. Publications written for Vietnamese in Paris cover every political viewpoint. Though Viet Cong agents provide them with constant propaganda, the vast majority of the colony is antiCommunist. Most, however, are antiwar and vaguely leftist...
What sets the Committee off is not easily discovered. Madame Nhu, Floyd McKissick, and a host of other controversial speakers have passed muster with the Committee. But in 1959 the group balked at Fidel Castro, and in 1963 a few members suggested informally that Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi should speak elsewhere (he did). Last week, the Committee vetoed a speech by Stokely Carmichael...