Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed multilateral nuclear force and an offer of a NATO-Iron Curtain nonaggression pact. The Assembly was still operating under its moratorium on voting-self-imposed to avert a showdown over Russia's peacekeeping arrears. And there was quite an interruption when, to protest the appearance of Castro-Communist Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, a Cuban exile fired a bazooka shell at the U.N. Secretariat building (see THE HEMISPHERE). But nothing could keep the Assembly from pursuing its primary purpose-talk...
...show was mounted by Cuban exiles against Che Guevara, Fidel Castro's Minister of Industries. Che, in burnished black boots and fresh green fatigues, had flown in to denounce the U.S. before the General Assembly for everything from "aggression" in South east Asia to Americans' "sexual exhibitionism" at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo. Undeterred by the ruckus outside, Guevara ranted on and on, perhaps in hope of distracting world attention from the troubles back home...
...Successful. In the past nine months, Castro's regime has been torn by an ugly power struggle between Cuba's old-line, Moscow-oriented Communists and the unorthodox Fidelistas, whom they deride as "adventurers." In recent months, four Moscow wingers have been sacked by Fidelistas from high government posts, while more than 70 army officers have been jailed on charges ranging from treason to conspiring to assassinate Castro...
...Castro Tactics. The regents' concession was probably sweeping enough to have ended student protests, although undergraduates protested that as individuals they should be free to organize politically and risk arrest without the added jeopardy of university punishment. But the university promptly reopened the dispute by threatening to discipline four student leaders, including Savio, who had organized the demonstration around the police car. Shouted Savio: "This factory does unjust things, and we'll have to cause the wheels to grind to a halt." Then he led the investment of Sproul Hall...
...conceded that the F.S.M. at first reflected an "understandable concern" over student political rights, assailed the dissidents as "an instrument of anarchy and political aggrandizement." Even before the sit-in, he had concluded that a handful of activists in the demonstrations "have been impressed with the tactics of Fidel Castro and Mao Tse-tung...