Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often interviews are nothing more than simple question-and-answer sessions that provide the journalist with little insight into the subject. But occasionally, resonance and understanding develop between the two that add a lot to the story. Such was the case with Diane Keaton and TIME Reporter-Researcher Janice Castro...
...Castro first met Keaton in Manhattan last March while reporting on Woody Allen's film Annie Hall. This time she arranged to spend a week with the actress in Los Angeles, where Keaton was relaxing before returning to the East Coast to work in another Allen film. For Castro, who lived and went to school in Berkeley, it was like going home again. Says she: "Because we both grew up in California, we had a lot in common. We were both really shy in high school; we talked about all the guys we used to dream about...
Upon his return from Cuba, Senator Church [Aug. 22] stated that his host Fidel Castro was a man of "dignity" with "a great sense of justice." I would like to ask the Senator how he defines dignity and justice in the case of a man who keeps his people under constant surveillance, has thousands of political prisoners tortured, and sentences countless others to be shot by firing squads merely because they dare to disagree with his policies...
...five years old when my parents and I left Cuba in 1962, but the struggle and suffering my family, friends and fellow countrymen have experienced as a result of the Castro takeover has been very real to me since then...
...against the treaty and left-wing protests against the Latin American leaders, but they were kept under control. Bomb threats emptied the Washington Monument and several downtown buildings, however, and two bombs went off, one at the Soviet Aeroflot offices and another 100 yds from the White House. Anti-Castro Cubans claimed responsibility, though Fidel was not in town (Cuba was excluded from the Organization of American States in 1962, and he was not invited). No one was hurt in the explosions...