Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defeat was bitter for Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. At a press conference called at week's end, Ford also lashed out at Cuba, declaring that its infiltration of some 6,000 troops into Angola "ends any efforts at all to have friendly relations" with the Castro government. Soviet activity in Angola, added the President, "doesn't help the continuation of détente...
...Israel's U.N. Ambassador Chaim Herzog reported last week that approximately a brigade of Cuban troops-usually about 3,000 men-has been with the Syrian army facing Israel on the Golan Heights for two years. This even though Fidel Castro's government last July formally disavowed the export of revolution...
...Daily News' Peter Lisagor and LIFE'S Richard Stolley (now managing editor of PEOPLE). L.B.J. also sought from the FBI, and duly received, information on critics of the Warren Commission's report on the assassination of Jack Kennedy (though Johnson himself doubted its conclusion, suspecting that Castro had had a hand in the murder). The FBI even forwarded a photo of one critic performing a sexual...
...Castro no, convertibles...
Sperling and Price noted the oppression of gay people by fascist states. They were silent, however, on the oppression of gays by socialist states. The brutal treatment accorded homosexuals by the Castro regime in Cuba has become something of an international scandal. (See "Out of the Closet: Voices of Gay Liberation" for an account of the persecution of gays by the Venceremos Brigade.) In Mao's China, gays suffer similar indignities, as documented by Bau Ruo-wang's "Prisoner...