Word: che
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forcing the Navy to pick up Cuban base employees at the gate and transport them to their jobs; next, Castro might try cutting off the base water supply from the Yateras River, 20 miles away. More and more, Cuban propaganda stressed what good friends the Communists were; Economic Czar Che Guevara announced grandly that Cuba has received $245 million in loans from "our socialist friends." and other speakers proclaimed that those same rocket-armed friends could destroy any Western Hemisphere nation with ease. By Ship & by Plane. The great exodus from the unhappy island, momentarily halted by invasion, resumed...
According to Ray, "nobody in Cuba any doubt" that the government is ng run by Communists. He named oul Castro, Che Cuevara, and the heads the National and International Banks prominent Communists...
...Liberation," Artime announced: "I am in Cuba again after my promise last year that I would come back." By battle's end, he reportedly lay dead in the sunken radio ship. There were rumors that there might be important casualties on the other side as well. Ernesto ("Che") Guevara was reported gravely wounded in the head, the result of a suicide attempt following an argument with Castro over command of the armed forces. And the persistent absence of Castro himself from the early victory celebration gave weight to reports that he had been hurt in a bombing attack...
...control. Four times last week he appeared to harangue Cubans over TV. "We are going to tear to bits all those who show their heads," he cried. At a workers' meeting he lapsed into incoherency. But Brother Raul, the Defense Minister, and Castro's Communist Adviser Che Guevara seemed to be keeping their heads. They sent convoys of tanks and grimly silent militia rumbling out of Havana to guard the lonely beaches along the island's 2,200-mile perimeter. Raul Castro enlisted sugarcane cutters as fighters, invited them to set up their own jungle justice over...
...Golf Club into a workers' social club, Castro and a couple of sidekicks decided to take a whack at the little white ball themselves. Castro clomped around the course in fatigues and combat boots, announced at the outset that he could beat President Kennedy. His right-hand man, "Che" Guevara, Moscow's favorite transplanted Argentine, allowed in turn that he himself was sure to beat Ike. Castro shot well over 150; Che won with a 127. Par for the course...