Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fidel Castro was less than complimentary when Houari Boumedienne replaced Ahmed Ben Bella as leader of revolutionary Algeria seven years ago. "A pimp," was the Cuban Premier's unbowdlerized estimate of Boumedienne. "A reactionary gorilla." Last week, as Castro visited Algeria in the course of a two-month hegira through Africa and the East bloc, Boumedienne had become "a great strategist" and Algeria under his rule was "a just society...
...determinedly socialist state with an overlay of stern Arab tradition -women have second-class status-Algeria may not necessarily be a just society. But it is an economically more viable one than Cuba. It is also, as Castro may well have observed, a study in paradoxes. Despite the agonies that Algerians suffered at the hands of the French in the eight-year war for independence, ties with France remain remarkably strong. France is still Algeria's principal trading partner; 7,000 Frenchmen teach school or operate medical clinics, while 400,000 Algerians work in France and send home...
...Cuban army, with some 80,000 men, is one of the largest and best-equipped in Latin America, as Premier Fidel Castro noted earlier this year in commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. "Never have our people had such a mass of fighters, such a quantity of cadres as those we now have," he said. What Fidel did not say was that the Russians had told him that the cost of keeping so many in uniform was an unnecessary burden on the economy and also prevented young men from pursuing careers in industry and agriculture...
...home and be a wife and mother, she shouldn't be put down for that. A good mother is a fantastic creation." That said, Barbra went back to the set to harangue Actor Jacobo Morales, who plays one of the characters in the housewife's fantasies: Fidel Castro...
...like a fairly good grade of college humor, but it is a good deal more: the fond, wondering recollection of a double exile, a man separated by circumstance from his country and by a decade and more from his youth. (Author Cabrera Infante, 42, is a leftist who regards Castro as a Stalinist and a gangster, and now lives in London.) His book is a remarkably good novel of memory, and it is memory that splits the images and works the magnifications, producing the prose pratfalls, the crosscutting of parody and boozy interior monologue, the bits of trivia...