Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when it was chartered in its present form, the OAS was envisioned as a regional United Nations that would provide mutual defense, promote economic development and knit the hemisphere together into a tight community. Performance has fallen short of promise, and history is quickly passing the OAS by. Castro-Communist guerrillas are striking at half a dozen nations, inter-American trade is lagging, population pressures are mounting, and peasant masses are clamoring for social and political change. In all this, the OAS remains relatively powerless to act or even serve as a catalyst in the formation of a joint hemisphere...
...meet once every five years to lay down OAS policy and give direction to the Council of OAS Ambassadors, which meets twice monthly in Washington. The foreign ministers have not met at all since 1954, except for one-shot meetings on such urgent matters as applying sanctions against Castro's Cuba. Among other reforms, José A. Mora, the able Uruguayan lawyer who serves as OAS Secretary-General, wants a meeting of foreign ministers at least once a year. "I cannot say that such a meeting might have foreseen or prevented the Dominican crisis," Mora said. "However...
...Fidel Castro's Communist dictatorship fairly bristles with coastal emplacements, sea-scanning radar, patrolling helicopters and 45-m.p.h. komar-class Soviet torpedo boats. Yet whenever the mosquito navy of the anti-Castro exiles buzzes up to bite away at fortress Cuba, as it did in Havana harbor last week, the recruits behind Castro's hardware curiously seem to be looking the other...
...they were forced into the Cuban deal almost by an act of God. Le Nickel's main mines are in far-off New Caledonia, but a drought there cut the necessary supply of hydroelectric power and forced the company to look elsewhere for nickel oxide. Before turning to Castro, they tried to buy supplies from the 166,761-ton U.S. Government nickel stockpile, but Washington turned them down. Authorities of both Le Nickel and the French government buzz that the U.S. has another, more devious reason for boycotting Le Nickel: early this year the company closed a $20 million...
Washington says that it has banned Le Nickel products from the U.S. because the company made a deal in July to buy 33 million Ibs. of nickel oxide from Castro's Cuba. The ban is based on the U.S. law prohibiting imports of products made from Cuban materials. Compounding the affront to the U.S. is the fact that Le Nickel agreed to purchase its nickel oxide from Cuba's Nicaro plant, a rich source that had been owned by the U.S. Government and operated by National Lead Co. until Castro expropriated...