Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years too late: he talked of his love for Cuba, of his memories of the Bay of Pigs invasion, of our duty to the Cubans we had promised to free. All he wanted in return for helping the Republican Party was its gratitude and a promise to continue ostracizing Castro's Cuba. In 1973, his world seemed no more real than that of the Japanese soldier who belatedly emerged from the Phillipine jungle to obey his Emperor's surrender orders. The rest of the United States has managed to forget the years devoted to crushing the Communist island within ninety...
...Puerto Rican Socialist Party's chief is Juan Mari Bras, 48, an avowed Communist who announced his gubernatorial candidacy last week. He takes Castro's Cuba as his model and gets both rhetorical and material help from Havana. Mari Bras formed alliances with several unions, though most of organized labor remains antiCommunist. Some radicals are now in the leadership of unions representing firemen and telephone and power-plant workers. A number of strikes in 1974 and early 1975 grew violent, and industrial sabotage became a nagging problem. So did random explosions at the Puerto Rican offices of mainland...
...Guatemala City when Genaro Castro was jolted awake by the thunderously loud rumble of buckling earth and masonry. Grabbing his terrified and screaming child, he stumbled over the shifting floor of his adobe house to the door. A pressure beyond his frantic strength held it shut. While he was still grappling with the door, the front wall of his home crashed outward into the street, leaving Castro and his son standing exposed but unharmed. They had just survived one of the century's most destructive natural disasters...
Trudeau's stay in Cuba was busy and carefully organized. More than 100,000 people, cheering, "Viva Cuba-Canada!" lined his eight-mile route from José Martí Airport to downtown Havana. With Castro as a helpful guide, Trudeau visited a housing project, a cattle-breeding farm, schools and factories; his host even took the Prime Minister, a devotee of water sports, on a snorkeling expedition near the Bay of Pigs. There was also time for six hours of congenial discussion on such issues as the expansion of trade...
...issue the two leaders, as Trudeau put it at the press conference, could only "agree to disagree." That was the problem of Cuba's involvement in the Angolan civil war. The Prime Minister had been sharply criticized back home for going to Cuba at a time when Castro was intervening in Africa-even though the trip had been planned for several months. In answer to his critics, the Prime Minister twice told Castro that Canada did not believe in foreign intervention, specifically in Angola. Nonetheless, the two leaders were careful to prevent the issue from souring the diplomatic mood...