Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they talked for more than seven hours, and she did her best to assure the Prime Minister-an admirer of Fidel Castro-that U.S. policy toward Cuba was changing. Indeed, four days later the White House announced plans for a limited exchange of diplomats with Havana, a step toward resuming full relations...
Covering Senator George McGovern's visit to Havana two years ago. Reporter Barbara Walters extracted a promise from Fidel Castro: the Cuban leader would give her his first major interview for American television. Thus Castro personally chauffeured Walters around the island over a four-day period last month, and ABC will present the choicest hour of their conversation this Thursday (10 p.m. E.D.T.). But somebody got to Fidel first...
...grinch who stole Castro is Bill Moyers, the former press secretary to Lyndon Johnson who a year ago left public television to become chief correspondent for CBS Reports. He did not set out to make Castro break his promise, but when Moyers was in Cuba last January filming a documentary, Castro showed up and wanted to talk-for 15½ hours, it turned out. Not to worry, Barbara. Says Moyers: "Even if Castro had come out and told me that he personally handed the rifle to Lee Harvey Oswald, our interviews wouldn't be competitive...
...Castro's filmed remarks for Moyers end up as short segments in a remarkable two-hour documentary, The CIA'S Secret Army, to be aired Friday (9 p.m. E.D.T.). The army-more than 600 CIA staff officers and 2,000 Cuban exiles based in Miami-was secretly formed by John F. and Robert Kennedy a few weeks after the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, according to Moyers. Its mission: to destroy the Cuban economy and assassinate Castro. Over the years, while the Miami police, the FBI and the Coast Guard looked the other way, tens of thousands...
...week Moyers was in Cuba, he was being widely mentioned as Jimmy Carter's choice to head the CIA-the very agency, as his documentary describes, that for more than a decade tried to assassinate the man he was interviewing. At the end of their hours together, Castro asked the reporter if he would accept the CIA job. Moyers promised that he would still be a journalist when they met again. "That'll be better," said Castro, who had a brief fling as a muckraking reporter in Havana before the revolution. "Journalism is beautiful...