Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atmosphere of Arrogance. Professional journalists generally give the IRE team high marks for thoroughness. Facts were accumulated on some 40,000 file cards; they were checked and double-checked and challenged by three lawyers. Future installments will include an examination of Arizona Governor Raul Castro's activities and an analysis of the traffic in drugs and stolen goods. Bill Hazlett, an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, says of the series so far: "The writing is kind of hack and it has a screaming or vigilante tone to it that detracts from the fine work the group...
...murder was Kemper Marley, 70, a cattle and liquor baron who looks as if he just stepped out of the pages of Zane Grey. Crusty and brusque, Marley has a reputation for getting what he wants any way he wants. He was the biggest contributor ($19,000) to Governor Castro's election campaign. While serving as an Arizona state highway commissioner in 1942, he was arrested for ordering a state-owned truck engine installed in one of his own vehicles. He was subsequently acquitted. By recalling the incident in a newspaper article, Bolles forced Marley to resign from...
...familiar bearded figure in army fatigues suddenly popped up in Africa last week. Fidel Castro toured several countries, made anti-"imperialistic" speeches and discussed present and future Cuban military and technical aid. This week he was due to be followed by Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, who will go to Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique in a general effort to increase Soviet influence in southern Africa. Both could take some satisfaction from the fact that an African military force, aided by the Marxist regime in Angola and almost certainly by Cuban troops there, was striking with astonishing success at an essentially...
...Rhodesian guerrillas. In Somalia, on the Horn of Africa, they advise the army as well as the Somali guerrillas who are active in the neighboring French territory of Afars and Issas (otherwise known as Djibouti), which is set to become independent this summer. And now, judging by Fidel Castro's current swing around Africa, they seem to be extending their influence to Ethiopia as well...
...time he reached Addis Ababa last week, Castro had already stopped in Algeria, Libya, South Yemen and Somalia, a desert land where Soviet influence is particularly strong. From there, he proceeded to Ethiopia, Somalia's neighbor and archenemy. His presence in Addis Ababa must have pleased the current military boss, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, since Castro is the first head of state to visit Ethiopia since the country's squabbling junta (known as the Dergue) dumped the late Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. Mengistu was believed to have asked Castro for military aid, but there were...