Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least 800 Americans still remain in Cuba. Some are businessmen who went to Cuba with U.S. companies and decided to stay on despite Fidel Castro; most are Cubans who were born in the U.S. or who acquired American citizenship through naturalization and went back south. But they all have one thing in common: a desperate desire to return...
...getting beaten with rifle butts, being jailed, deported and mobbed, all the while ceaselessly badgering news-shy governments to relax press censorship and winning a reputation as an implacable foe of dictatorships both right and left, which he amply documented in articles and books (Freedom Is My Beat, Fidel Castro: Rebel-Liberator or Dictator?); of a heart attack; while covering an economics conference in Bogota, Colombia (see THE WORLD...
First there were the white mercenaries hired by Mobutu's predecessor and enemy, Moise Tshombe, a tough gang of Belgians, Frenchmen, anti-Castro Cubans and English colonials, all with ties of loyalty to Tshombe. Then there were the 2,500 Katangese "gendarmes," whose fiery red-and-yellow scarves and flashing bush knives had figured in every Congolese conflict since the Tshombe secession of 1960. Finally there was ex-General Mobutu's own Armee Nationale Congolaise, inefficient as fighters but at least loyal to his government. Fearful of disarming or disbanding the "Kats," who might stir up trouble back...
...toll of destruction reached millions; four lives had been lost, 46 people injured, and 187 arrested. The cause, Locher and Wagner hinted persistently, lay in an organized conspiracy. Cleveland does have its Black Muslim Temple of Islam (No. 18). There was at least one representative of the pro-Castro Revolutionary Action Movement in town. A group called the J.F.K. House-for Jomo Freedom Kenyatta and John F. Kennedy-is suspected of running a Hough-headquartered training school in street warfare...
...cultural evening that began with a villanelle of squeals and grunts. The caterwauling doggerel went on, with the audience chanting a "Sound Mass"-"MUTAMA! MUTAMA! M'MUTA!"-and Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 29, whose benefit appearances in the past have included ban-the-bomb marches, standing up in Castro-style fatigues to sing Fidel's freedom song, Guantanamera. Before the moon was down, leonine Poet Robert Graves, 70, advised the kids on using drugs: "A real person needs nothing like that." Unnecessary advice, since most of the poetasters were already high on beer and left the hall...