Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peace Corps workers in South America had a similar experience. Riesman recalls the accounts of Peace Corps volunteers after the assassination. Although many of the workers themselves disliked Kennedy because of his tough anticommunist line with Castro, the rural peasants came to them to mourn the death of Kennedy. "They had been fashionably cynical, and the peasants who worshipped Kennedy came to grieve...
...Robert Kennedy, Marcello also had cause to make the President, John Kennedy had approved of his brother's attack on Marcello and union leader Jimmy R. Holla and his unsuccessful Boy of pigs invasion had lost all of the Mafia's casino dope cackers and position rings to Fidel Castro. Ferre was anti-Castro and-elegantly turned Owald Ferrie was found dead six days after being named as a conspirator by Garrison. The thread tying Dallas and New Orleans together was allegedly Ruby...
...also stands to gain from the program. Rosenheck, a psychology major, plans to go into counseling "to help women like myself know that they can do this, too, that they don't have to settle for less." Says she: "I have a lot to give back." - By Janice Castro. Reported by RuthMehrtens Calvin/Northampton
FORTY MILLION people will die from hunger and malnutrition this year. Half of them will be children. The figures are taken from The World Economic and Social Crisis, a new book by Cuban president Fidel Castro's economists. The book is mostly a bunch of tables and charts showing the economics conditions of the world's less developed countries. The hunger figures in particular are worth pondering...
...Kennedy had inherited the plan from the Eisenhower Administration, which, according to Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, had already sunk $40 million into the training of a band of Cuban exiles who were supposed to sweep ashore in Cuba, join forces with the grateful, disenchanted islanders and dislodge Fidel Castro. Kennedy was skeptical of the idea, but allowed himself to be talked into it by men who seemed so sure of what they were doing. The mission, of course, was an utter disaster, and it taught Kennedy several important lessons. One was that truculently self-confident experts, such as generals...