Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil war a minuscule affair. Yet in the six weeks since the first of 20,500 U.S. Marines and paratroopers landed in Santo Domingo, the Johnson Administration has faced a drumfire of criticism unequaled in range and volume since John F. Kennedy tried and failed to blast Fidel Castro out of power at the Bay of Pigs...
...Bosch's term. Ignored was the technicality that the 1963 constitution forbids military officers from holding office. "First," cried Caamaño, "the revolution's goal must be fulfilled. After that we can talk about elections." To some Americans this sounded like a rerun of Fidel Castro's old tapes-and the scenes in the rebel-held area of downtown Santo Domingo did little to dispel the impression. When OAS cars arrived outside Caamaño's headquarters, hostile crowds closed around them chanting, "With or without the OAS, we will win!" At a rally...
...Thomas C. Mann, the U.S. State Department's ranking expert on Latin America, glumly compared the area to "a pile of sugar being eaten away by a fire hose." Much of the erosion has since been halted. The Alianza has made considerable progress in developing economies, while Castro has been ex posed as a bungling adventurer. The Brazilian revolution ended the drift to Communism under a feckless leftist President; Chile averted the same fate in a head-to-head election in which the Christian Democrats' Eduardo Frei won an overwhelming victory; Mexico continues its boom under the able...
Inaction, Sartre would point out, is tantamount to acceptance of the status quo. Sartre does not choose Communism because he always grees with Moscow. In fact, he has frequently criticized Moscow. He chooses Communism as Castro chooses it, because to govern is to choose, and this seems the better of two unpleasant alternatives...
Died. Celia Guevara, 58, mother of Che, Fidel Castro's Argentine-born jack-of-all-subversion, a screeching Communist fanatic who raised her nino on Marxist dogma but never had the influence she wanted until her son's rise to power in Cuba, after which she traveled the hemisphere as a Communist Front organizer clad in leather jacket and Basque beret, and forever sporting a pistol-even when she sat down to dinner; of cancer; in Buenos Aires...