Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fidel Castro...
...Hunter Thompson are currently leading the list. Like last year's L.F. Stone, if he showed up. Thompson would probably give an interesting speech. But since Thompson might also be comatose from Ibogaine, seniors might want to consider other possibilities as well. For example, they might recommend Fidel Castro, who startled the diplomatic world during his last visit to the United States by staying in a Harlem hotel instead of the Waldorf-Astoria. Or they might follow their predecessors of two years ago and consider Madama Binh. If they prefer to limit themselves to Americans, the seniors have a less...
America's refusal to recognize the Castro government, and its immoral and disastrous attempts to overthrow the regime, are part of an unwillingness to come to terms with reality which unfortunately characterizes a great deal of recent American foreign policy. Throughout the 14-year period, Castro repeatedly expressed his readiness to establish amicable relations with this country. And just last fall, the Cuban government conveyed to visiting Senators Jacob K. Javits and Claiborne Pell its anxiousness to achieve a detente with the United States...
...daughter is married, set the precedent for this emphasis and Coppola has created several new ones--Michael's son's first communion, the funeral of Vito's widow, Michael's appearance before a congressional committee, and, most bizarre of all, a long cloak, dagger and revolution sequence in pre-Castro Cuba...
...Teamsters Unions is responsive to the needs of the growers, not the farm workers. The Teamsters is run from above through bureaucratic appointments. David Castro, the president of the only existing Teamster local of farm workers (and presently earning $500 per week), was appointed without any election. He argues, "Suppose we had an election and it was stacked and I lost. To be very honest, I have to make sure the local is going to make it" (New York Times, November 11, 1974), Workers say that only the lowest level of the hierarchy has contact with them. As one lettuce...