Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that birth control was merely a way for the industrial powers to remain rich by preserving the status quo. Peace was restored only after Ehrlich conceded that the U.S. should curb its own consumption of natural resources before urging population controls on developing countries. Brazilian Economist Josué de Castro fumes at the very mention of birth control. "Genocide of the unborn!" he charges...
Diplomatic Illness. It was possible that Castro, who is a bit paunchy at 45, was "simply tired," as Polish government spokesmen insisted. But then there was the theory, endorsed by some European newspapers, that Castro was suffering a diplomatic illness meant to convey his unhappiness at a possible attempt by Polish officials to arrange a meeting between him and Richard Nixon, who had passed through Warsaw a few days earlier...
Though officials in Washington and Warsaw denied it, it was an intriguing theory. On the formal diplomatic level, U.S. policy is still frosty toward Castro -and toward an attempt by Peru's left-wing military regime to reinstate Cuba in the Organization of American States. Last week the OAS voted 13 to 7 (with three abstentions) against a Peruvian proposal that each member be permitted to decide independently whether to resume relations with Havana. Along with most OAS members, Washington is opposed to a reconciliation unless and until Castro agrees to behave more "responsibly"-that is, to stop sending...
...Though Castro has been abusive as ever toward the U.S. and the OAS, longtime observers now sense that his tune could change quickly-if Moscow were to order it and if Washington were to come across with an agreement to, say, give up the Navy's obsolete base at Guantànamo and invite Cuba back into the lucrative U.S. sugar quota system...
...cited Fidel Castro's impending Rumanian tour in late May and the need to prepare for a party conference coming up in July, but the Japanese are unconvinced. They suspect that Ceausescu, who talked to a dissident Japanese politician in Bucharest early last month, simply decided that it would be better to wait and deal later with whoever succeeds lame duck Premier Eisaku Sato...