Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reporter-Researcher Janice Castro, who along with F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt helped compile the research for the project, approached her assignment with a quake-wise Californian's cool. Born on a cattle ranch north of Oakland, she knew well the tale of how her greatgrandparents' chimney toppled into the kitchen during the 1906 San Francisco disaster. Like many Californians, she has often felt the earth move. The last time was in June. While Castro sat reading a Virginia Woolf novel on a mountain in the Coast Range, the earth began to "boogie and shake." Suddenly she realized that...
...Portugal into Western Europe's first Communist nation. It might be an orthodox Marxist state, as envisaged by one of the Continent's few remaining Stalinist Communist Party bosses, Alvaro Cunhal. It might also evolve into a different kind of radically leftist society, borrowing inspiration from Fidel Castro's Cuba, Houari Boumedienne's Algeria and Mao's China. Either way, the Red threat in Portugal vitally affects the political stability of the western Mediterranean and the future of the North Atlantic Alliance...
...essentially an opportunist who might even join with military moderates to topple Gonçalves and the Communists. The one certain thing is his disdain for politicians. Returning to Lisbon last week after a nine-day visit to Cuba-where he participated enthusiastically in the anniversary celebrations of Fidel Castro's revolution-he announced at the airport that last April's elections, which gave the Socialists a plurality, were irrelevant. Said he: "The dynamic of the revolution is what counts...
...from its founding in 1947 until his retirement in 1973. One of the "old boys" of the agency and the confidant of one director after another, Houston related to newsmen how he had told Robert F. Kennedy about plans for Mafia hoodlums to assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro (TIME, June 30). Houston said Bobby Kennedy "didn't seem very perturbed" about the plotting against Castro, criticizing only the CIA's use of the Mafia. Nonetheless, the former CIA lawyer did not link assassination plots to either of the Kennedy brothers...
Agee spent three years in Ecuador, between 1960 and 1963, learning the ropes of "clandestine activity." These were the years of the Cuban Revolution, when the United States did everything in its power, short of an outright declaration of war, to stop Castro and the socialist state he desired...