Word: castros
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unhappy countries are like Tolstoy's unhappy families; each is miserable in its own way. Even by that standard, the portrait of Fidel Castro's Cuba offered by the exiles whose testimony forms the bulk of this softspoken, yet emotionally gripping documentary is singularly poignant...
Almost from the moment Castro consolidated power, his revolutionary government was determined to deny the existence of political "impurities" in Cuban society-by charging many dissidents with "moral impurity." Given the country's licentious reputation in the bad old days of the Batista regime, a program of sexual austerity had a plausible, even uplifting, ring. It would satisfy the puritanical strain that attends much leftist thought even as it appealed to traditional Cuban ideas of machismo, nourished in Castroites by their years of guerrilla warfare. As Writer René Ariza says, there is "some Castro...
Included in the original assignment were three Communist countries, the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba, which have decided since May to sit out the Games. Leifer had the notion that Cuba's "landmark" was President Fidel Castro, who obligingly posed with the island's superheavyweight boxer, Teófilo Stevenson. Afterward, when Leifer asked Castro to autograph a picture from an earlier session, the President's arm was so sore from holding Stevenson's hand aloft in a victory salute that he could barely write. The arm was not too sore, however, to offer Leifer...
Whether you like it or not, Jackson managed to reunite prisoners with their families and again proved that things can be achieved by sincere talking rather than cold war mongering. As to the charge that Castro and Jackson were "using" each other, it is better that they use each other for peaceful ends than for divisive ones. If Ronald Reagan's foreign policy is wrong, it should be attacked from wherever possible, on these shores or abroad...
After graduating from Buenos Aires' Union Theological Seminary in 1950, he studied with renowned Protestant Theologian Karl Barth in Basel, Switzerland. Castro, married and the father of two children, has served as a pastor in Uruguay and Bolivia, and has held several administrative posts, including the presidency of Uruguay's Evangelical Methodist Church. In 1973 he moved to Geneva to become director of the W.C.C.'s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. He left that post last year to work on a doctorate...