Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...request, Robert Maheu, a former top aide to Billionaire Howard Hughes, supplied King Hussein of Jordan and other foreign leaders with female companions. Maheu was also the go-between the CIA used to recruit two high-ranking Mafia members in an attempt to assassinate Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro...
...pistol at his side. The other is a polished, quick-witted intellectual, an urbane man of the book rather than the gun. They would seem to have little in common, yet by the time Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau ended a three-day visit to Fidel Castro's Cuba last week, an obvious rapport had developed between the two leaders. As TIME's Ottawa bureau chief William Mader, who accompanied Trudeau, reported, the airport farewell ceremonies turned into a kind of emotional family affair as Castro embraced Trudeau, kissed his wife Margaret and cuddled their four-month...
...Castro returned the compliments, albeit with a bit more restraint. Appearing with Trudeau at a sugar refinery, Castro told a crowd of 25,000 how grateful he was that Canada had always "stood by Cuba"-meaning that Ottawa, unlike the U.S. and most of Latin America, had never broken diplomatic relations with Havana...
Chickens and Locomotives. Trudeau's visit-part of a Latin American tour that also included Mexico and Venezuela-was designed to advance ties between Cuba and Canada (Canadian trade last year: exports to Cuba, $156.1 million; imports, $59.8 million). Castro thanked his guest for the fact that Canada, over the years, had helped Cuba with everything "from chickens to cattle to trucks and locomotives." Addressing the crowd in almost flawless Spanish, Trudeau praised Cuban-Canadian relations as proof that countries with "very different and even opposite systems . . . are learning to speak together and work together toward the solution...
Saraiva de Carvalho is the self-designated "Fidel Castro of Europe" who was responsible for festooning Lisbon with red carnations during the 1974 April revolution that overthrew former Premier Marcello Caetano. His arrest indicated how far to the right Portugal has moved since last November. Some 150 high-ranking military officers and government officials have been imprisoned for alleged involvement in the fall revolt, and more arrests were expected to follow last week's report. To make room for the leftists, the government of moderate Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo has quietly released nearly all of the political...