Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President but is known for his independent mind. Boston University President John Silber, whose hawkish and conservative views have stirred controversy on his campus, was born in Texas and taught philosophy there. Others on the all-male panel: Yale Economics Professor Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, a refugee from Castro's Cuba who nonetheless takes a generally liberal...
...cover article on Legionnaire's disease, renewed old medical contacts last week, spending two days in Washington with experts at the National Institutes of Health. San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson, reporting his third TIME story on AIDS in ten months, visited bars and restaurants in the "Castro," the city's largest homosexual district, interviewing employees and customers about the life-style changes brought on by fear of AIDS. He also visited patients and staff members at San Francisco General Hospital's AIDS clinic. Says Thompson: "For all the anguish and tragedy any new disease inflicts, there...
...Janice Castro...
DIED. Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, 64, former President of Fidel Castro's Cuba from 1959 to 1976, when Castro took over the job; by his own hand (he shot himself reportedly as a result of depression and a painful back ailment); in Havana. A dignified, rather bourgeois Communist, in contrast to the bearded, fatigue-clad rebel leaders, Dorticós chaired the country's main economic planning body and was the regime's No. 3 man, after the Castros, Fidel and his younger brother...
...between Nicaragua and Honduras. "If you had 15,000 to 20,000 Cuban troops in Nicaragua, you might do something bold." That unsettling possibility certainly seemed remote enough, but late last week TIME learned of the recent arrival in Managua of Cuba's General Arnaldo Ochoa, Castro's leading specialist in expeditionary forces. "This," says an Administration aide, "is ominous. It worries the hell...