Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guerrilla movement was not united until 1980, when its leaders met repeatedly in Havana at the invitation of Fidel Castro. In exchange for Cuban promises of increased military aid, the guerrillas formed three organizations: 1) the Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), an amalgam of revolutionaries and representatives of alienated left-wing Salvadoran political parties, whose job is to plead the guerrilla case abroad; 2) the Unified Revolutionary Directorate, a 15-member war council of the top guerrilla commandantes; and 3) the F.M.L.N. itself, a coordinating body for the guerrilla groups...
When Veteran Photographer Eddie Adams, 50, was offered a chance to accompany Parade Magazine Reporter Tad Szulc, 57, to Cuba for an exclusive interview with President Fidel Castro, 57, he eagerly accepted. But "el jefe máximo" kept the pair waiting in their hotel for two weeks, and they finally flew back to New York, though not before Adams had angrily given every Cuban official he could find a good piece of his mind. A few days later, the journalists were called back to Havana. This time Cuba's mercurial leader was in a more obliging mood, allowing...
...fire in the smoldering, nearly 18-year-old war along the Angola-Namibia border. This raised new hopes for a breakthrough in the long-stalled negotiations over Namibia. Then last week in Havana, Angola's Marxist President, José Eduardo dos Santos, and Cuba's President, Fidel Castro, unexpectedly issued a joint communiqué setting forth terms for a withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola...
Though couched in stinging, anti-South African rhetoric, the statement was the strongest signal to date that Castro may be ready to comply with U.S. and South African demands to pull out of Southern Africa. The three major Angolan-Cuban conditions...
...positions that have consistently born out his sound judgement. For example, McGovern was among the first Congressmen to criticize U.S. intervention in Vietnam, an opposition which became the overriding issue in the 1972 campaign. McGovern's early calls for the recognition of mainland China and peaceful coexistence with Fidel Castro's Cuba have also become testament to McGovern's foresight in foreign policy matters...