Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...centerpiece of this sun culture is Miami. In the past 25 years, the city has gone from the nation's vacation and retirement capital to an international metropolis with a predominantly Latin beat. In a sense, its modern founder is Fidel Castro, whose Marxist revolution forced tens of thousands of rich and middle-class Cubans to flee to Florida. Like the Nationalist Chinese who retreated to Formosa, Miami's Cubans expected to return home but stayed to capitalize on their skills and energies. Another similarity to their Oriental counterparts is an active anti-Communism that has attracted steady U.S. Government...
Citizen Hughes contains plenty of grist for a Potomac potboiler: the role of Hughes Tool Co. in building the Glomar Explorer, the secret submarine-recovery vessel; Hughes' plans to run Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt for President; Robert Maheu's part in a half-baked CIA plot to poison Fidel Castro. But the book's chief merit is its direct access to the mind of a callous and frightened man. His fears about antitrust suits, Las Vegas competition and staff loyalty pale before his phobias. Dreading germs, he dictated a "Procedures Manual" for handling anything he was to touch: "Wash four...
...hope," he mused more seriously, "that Cuba will become a beacon of socialism in Latin America. Castro offers that hope, and the Americans are helping us." He said that instead of establishing normal relations with Cuba, the U.S. was doing all it could to drive Castro to the wall by organizing a campaign against him, stirring up the Latin American countries and imposing an economic blockade on Cuba. "That's stupid," he exclaimed, "and it's a result of the howls of zealous anti-Communists in the U.S. who see red everywhere, though possibly something is only rose-colored...
Then, having smacked his lips with gusto as if anticipating a tasty meal, he predicted, "Castro will have to gravitate to us like an iron filing to a magnet...
...like Castro insulting members...