Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...citizenship, Oswald had no trouble reentering the U.S. or obtaining a new passport. Welcomed back to the country by prominent members of the intelligence community in New York and by wealthy anti-communist Russian emigres in Dallas, Oswald then surfaced in New Orleans as the secretary of a pro-Castro organization called the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Not only was he the only known member of the organisation, out its literature was stamped with the address of an anti-Castro group of Cuban exiles directed by Howard Hunt, Watergate burglar and CIA political advisor to the Bay of Pigs...
Queries for Castro...
...feel that we should not initiate resumption of trade or diplomatic relations until Premier Castro and his government show clear signs of changing their policies and attitudes toward our country. Specifically, what does Castro intend to do about millions of dollars worth of expropriated property of U.S. citizens? What about human rights and his refusal to allow any international body to inspect the political prisons? What about travel rights for Cuban Americans separated from their families in Cuba? These issues require satisfactory answers and are the basis of a resolution I am co-sponsoring with Senator Richard Stone of Florida...
...some time, Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro has been sending out signals indicating that he would welcome a policy change. As long as two years ago, he promised to begin arresting skyjackers who sought asylum in Cuba. In June he quietly expelled three skyjackers and let the U.S. know they could be picked up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He returned $2 million in ransom money that had been taken to Cuba in 1972 by the skyjackers of a Southern Airways DC-9. He also toned down the anti-American rhetoric on Cuban radio concerning the U.S. naval base...
Perhaps most important, Castro gradually convinced the U.S. that Cuba was no longer "exporting revolution" to the hemisphere. When Senator George McGovern visited Cuba last May, Castro discussed the 1962 missile crisis with him. "I was furious when Khrushchev compromised," Castro said. "But I realize in retrospect that he reached the proper settlement with Kennedy. If my position had prevailed, there would have been a terrible war. I was wrong...