Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some 700,000 largely middle-class Cuban refugees have fled their Communist-dominated island home for the U.S. since Fidel Castro took power. Of these, 430,000 have settled in southern Florida's Dade County, where they were initially welcomed with sympathy and federal relocation grants. The Cubans have long since spread out from Little Havana. Neighboring Hialeah (pop. 133,000) is 65% Latin, and the Cubans have moved on to such well-tended suburbs as Coral Gables, Kendall and Westchester. They have prospered mightily, prompting Cuban Writer José Sanchez-Boudy to boast with only slight hyperbole...
...acknowledged, however, that he had been recruited by Gangster John Roselli in the early '60s for the CIA-backed plot to murder Cuban President Fidel Castro. He joined, he said, chiefly out of patriotism: "It was like in World War II. They tell you to go to the draft board and sign up. Well, I signed up." Besides, he had a grudge to settle against Castro for closing down the casinos after seizing power in 1959. According to Trafficante, the mobsters considered "poison, planes, tanks. I'm telling you, they talked about everything." Eventually they chose poison pills...
...took the premeditated murder of a former diplomat to put teeth into a Justice Department with a sometime questionable commitment to ferreting out the truth. Last August the Justice Department concluded a 22-month investigation of the assasination with indictments of four anti-Castro Cubans and the three Chilean agents of the now defunct DINA, Gen. Juan Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, former head of the DINA, Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Armando Fernandez Larios...
Helms, who was CIA liaison to the Warren Commission, admitted to the committee that he had not told the commission about the Castro assassination plots, but, noting that John McCone was then CIA director, he asked: "Why single me out as the guy who should have told the Warren Commission?" Did he now believe that he should have informed the commission? Helms, who grew short-tempered as the committee grilled him for seven hours, replied: "Yes, I should have backed up a truck and taken all the documents down to the commission...
Being a peripatetic President is tiring, so Cuba's Fidel Castro decided to take five-on a reviewing stand in Ethiopia's Revolution Square. As Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ethiopia's head of state, chatted away, Castro slumped in his chair and watched a parade. Back in the days of Emperor Haile Selassie such behavior would not have passed muster. But as it happened, Castro was in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to help the country's Marxist rulers celebrate the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of the late Emperor. Despite his fatigue, he managed...