Word: castros
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...important reason for the Democrats' success was nothing more complicated than the fact that the party had generally managed to put forward the most attractive and distinctive candidates in a campaign in which many of the gubernatorial rivals were taking remarkably similar positions. Among the winners were Raul Castro, the first Chicano to be elected in Arizona; Jerry Apodaca, the first Spanish-surnamed candidate to win in New Mexico in 56 years; and Hawaii's George Ariyoshi, the first American of Japanese ancestry to reach a U.S. Governor's mansion...
...Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro roundly denounced the Organization of American States as "the whorehouse of imperialism." His acerbic judgment was presumably reinforced by the diplomatic and trade quarantine imposed on Cuba by the OAS three years later. Now, though, Castro may well be in a mind to revise his opinion. Last week OAS members- notably Peru, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia-were lobbying for an end to the economic and political isolation of Cuba. When the foreign ministers of the organization meet in Quito this week, it is virtually certain that the required two-thirds majority...
Opinion within the OAS has been shifting in Castro's favor over the past several years (TIME, Sept. 2). The pivotal difference at the Quito conference is the attitude of the U.S., which will conspicuously decline to lobby in favor of continued sanctions. The American policy shift was foreshadowed in a recent report by the independent but influential Commission on U.S.-Latin American Relations, headed by Sol Linowitz, former Xerox board chairman and Ambassador to the OAS under Lyndon Johnson. The commission's study firmly recommends an end to Cuba's isolation. It acknowledges that the Soviet...
Bomb Blasts. At least two nations oppose the lifting of sanctions. Chile has complained that Cuba flew arms to the late Marxist President Salvador Allende before he was overthrown. Uruguay insists that Castro still underwrites the Tupamaro guerrilla movement. Bolivia, whose military government last week put down an army revolt, and Paraguay may also vote no on the grounds that they are subject to Castroite subversion. Almost as if to underscore such claims, bomb blasts rocked both the Bolivian embassy and the Brazilian Cultural Institute in Quito before the conference...
Brazil, which is ideologically sympathetic to the Chilean and Uruguayan military-backed governments, nevertheless sees that there is no point in trying to block Cuba without U.S. help. Moreover, two of Castro's outspoken advocates in the OAS are looking more and more formidable. They are Mexico, with newly discovered oil reserves, and petroleum-rich Venezuela, which introduced the 1964 quarantine proposal but is now backing the movement...