Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first press reports made it seem plausible: another Bay of Pigs was in the offing. Amid the forests of the Florida Everglades, where Cuban exiles had plotted to oust Fidel Castro, a new counterrevolutionary army had been born. This time the rebels were Nicaraguan expatriates mobilizing to overthrow their country's quasi-Marxist regime...
...leased former sunflower farm, resembles a vacated M*A*S*H stage set or a jerry-built guerrilla dude ranch. Gonzalez says his intention is both to train Latin American counterrevolutionaries for six weeks, at a cost of $600 to $700 each, and to rekindle the belligerent anti-Castro spirit of Florida's Cuban community. By Gonzalez's own admission, that second goal has been something of a dud, since would-be Cuban-American patrons have been slow in rallying to his cause. Complains Gonzalez: "They are too comfortable...
...Ammerman and Publisher N.S. ("Buddy") Hayden: "What should I tell my wife?" Hayden sighed, then answered: "I don't know what to say. Prepare for the worst." The same advice would seem to apply in New York-and during the coming years, in other cities too. -By Janice Castro. Reported by Janice C. Simpson/New York, with other bureaus
...comment, which implied that Libya is the first sovereign nation since World War II to plot the assassination of a head of state. For better or for worse, it is well documented that the CIA attempted more than once during the 1960s to eliminate Cuba's Fidel Castro...
Whom do they most admire in the world? "Beside our great chairman, Arafat," says Boutros, "there are Ho Chi Minh and Castro." For Jamila it is Lenin: "Because he made a new world for his people. He made them like themselves and work together." The question of the future is raised, and the three of them talk of Palestine's certain glory. Jamila offers something more: "I would put an end to the use of all nuclear weapons...