Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people felt about Cuba's government. "We are friendly to the Cuban people," said the first worker, "our attitude to the government depends on what it does." "Our factory doesn't have any direct relations with Cuba," said a second. Two others gave slightly more detailed accounts, about how Castro was originally nationalist and anti-imperialist but today Cuba has great problems, being exploited by the Soviet Union. Cuba is admittedly a long way from China, but the first two answers still seemed a little disturbing...
...moment, however, Arafat is the darling of the Arab world. Still basking in his U.N. triumph, the P.L.O. leader last week flew off to Cuba aboard an Algerian Boeing 707 to confer with another revolutionary turned politician, Fidel Castro. Meanwhile, there were six dead in more border clashes along the Israel-Lebanon frontier last week, and there was a dramatic partial mobilization of Israeli forces directed toward Syria, which, according to Rabin, was unloading some 20 shiploads of Soviet arms at the port of Latakia. Alarming as the mobilization was, neither the Israelis nor Kissinger felt that hostilities were imminent...
Crucial Abstentions. In the wake of the visit to Havana by Senators Claiborne Pell and Jacob Javits, the resignation of Castro-hating Nixon, and the Linowitz Commission report recommending a normalization of U.S. relations with Cuba (TIME, Nov. 18), many delegates were convinced that the U.S. was ready to accept the lifting of sanctions. In fact, the American delegation did arrive in Quito intending to vote yes if an unbeatable majority developed. But as the vote neared, the aloof U.S. posture clearly worked against Cuba. An abstention frustrated a two-thirds majority almost as effectively as a negative ballot...
...even diplomats, claimed that the OAS was dead. That clearly was not the case. However, as more and more Latin nations ignore the OAS embargo by recognizing and trading with Cuba, the organization's authority will inevitably be undermined. Venezuela, for example, is widely expected to become Castro's first non-Soviet source...
...quick survey of this grouping of "declasse intellectuals" would include Karl Marx, the Ph.D. who couldn't find the much-sought-after teaching post; Fidel Castro, the lawyer; Che Guevara, the medical doctor; and Salvadore Allende, the medical doctor...