Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spanish-American War. As far as I've been able to find out, the treaty concerning the port is bilateral in only the most abstract sense. One version I've heard is that it's a treaty "in perpetuity," or until both sides shall agree to a fundamental change. Castro says he wants the Navy to leave, and it's not going. The United States has interpreted the treaty to mean we can stay, and Castro has said he sees it another way. It's the kind of thing that keeps international lawyers and the U.N. busy...
...Boston just before Labor Day. Those captured included Filiberto Inocencio Ojeda-Rios, 52, the suspected mastermind of the Hartford robbery. But the FBI dragnet failed to find Victor Manuel Gerena, 27, a former wrestler accused of leading the robbery. Behind Gerena and the Macheteros, says the FBI, is Fidel Castro. The agency believes that Gerena fled to Cuba with much of the Wells Fargo booty. Ojenda-Rios is also thought to have worked closely with Cuba's intelligence agency: in San Juan, his nickname is G-2 Cubano...
...does have one weapon the Soviets cannot begin to compete with: its mass culture, so pervasive that Moscow teenagers pay black-market prices for blue jeans and television viewers the world over are addicted to Dallas and Dynasty. Radio Marti, the Reaganauts' new propaganda tool aimed at Castro's Cuba, is a huge success, not for its anti-Communist editorials but for its pop music and steamy soap opera Esmeralda...
...raised Communist eyebrows in Havana and furnished gossip items for the capitalist press. But the deal is apparently in the works: Fidel Castro, 59, will reportedly receive $2.5 million from the U.S. publisher Simon & Schuster for three books. The first volume would include his 1979 speeches to the United Nations and his views on Latin America's debt, the second his thoughts on religion and Marxism, and the third his memoirs. Questions remain, however, about whether el jefe maximo will ever receive his fee. Last November the Treasury Department issued a license to Simon & Schuster allowing it to sign...
Ralf Traugott, 32, Lunenburg, Mass., automobile dealer. One of the two initial hijackers, who called himself "Castro," spoke German better than English. When he discovered that Traugott was born in Berlin, "he immediately called out my name and came over to me," recalls Traugott. "He put his 9-mm pistol against my forehead and put a hand grenade against my ear." In German, Castro asked, "Have you fear?" Traugott replied in German, "No, I have no fear." That answer, says Traugott, seemed to surprise Castro, so Traugott added, "O.K., a little bit when you have the gun and the grenade...