Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly led to nuclear war as Kennedy tried to live up to his rhetoric and humiliate Khruschev. Whether it was his obsessive pursuit of women--which, one might say, made Kennedy's administration as illustrious for its 1000 nights as for its 1000 days--or his obsessive pursuit of Castro, the important thing was always that he prove to the world he had balls...
...possibility of more Marxist regimes in the hemisphere, and they chide the U.S. for its cries of alarm. In addition to their conciliatory rhetoric toward Castro and Communism, the Mexican authorities have allowed Cuban military aid to reach the Guatemalan insurgents across Mexican territory. There is little doubt that Mexico is playing a double game in the region. As a senior Guatemalan official put it last week: "Mexico thinks that by throwing meat to the Cuban dog, it can avoid being bitten itself...
...terrorist organizations were spending as much time shooting at each other as at their common enemy, the Salvadoran military. FARN was the only guerrilla group to break with the guerrillas' united front after it was formed in early 1980, at the insistence of Fidel Castro. FARN rejoined the others, however, within a few months, after one of its commanders, Ernesto Jovel, died in a mysterious airplane crash...
...longtime specialist on Latin America, Christian faults her colleagues for ignoring, then misinterpreting, the rise of Tomás Borge. A friend of Fidel Castro's with "almost mystical stature" among Latin guerrillas, Borge was jailed and tortured during Somoza's rule. When Somoza fell and Borge got control of the Interior Ministry and the security forces, both the Post and the Times forecast that Borge was now, in the Times 's words, "in a position to control the most radical elements among the rebels." Before long, Borge's men killed one business leader, arrested others...
...wartime dalliance with a European beauty-contest winner who had Nazi connections. In the White House, another affair put him in worse jeopardy. His partner, Judith Campbell (later Exner), was also seeing Mobster Sam Giancana, whom the CIA was trying to enlist in a plot to kill Castro...