Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Fidel Castro's Armed Forces Ministry one day last week came a high-pitched communiqué. An invasion force, said the ministry, landed on the north shore of Oriente province and was engaged by the militia. In the fight Invasion Leader Armentino Feria, described as a follower of Batista Gangster Rolando Masferrer, was killed. Captured, according to the communiqué, were two of his men, plus a U.S. flag, a U.S. Army manual, a U.S. Army uniform, seven U.S. carbines and three muleloads of ammunition. The remaining invaders, totaling 24 men, escaped to the hills. Inevitably the ministry...
...answered the telephone, coped with a stream of visitors, and tried to keep his three children (aged five, three, and nine months) from crawling off with state papers. In a big, three-story, official residence near the river, bespectacled Premier Patrice Lumumba peered out curtained windows, occasionally shouted invented communiqués to passing newsmen, and cried defiance at the world. On a grassy hilltop overlooking the foaming Congo rapids, stolid President Joseph Kasavubu huddled in his modern-design palace and issued laconic statements to the effect that whatever Lumumba said...
...Khrushchev visited the little Rambouillet dairy originally created as a plaything for Marie Antoinette, the husbands walked the sandy paths of the chateau grounds, plowing through the whole range of East-West problems: disarmament, Algeria, Berlin, and the future of Germany. Out of their talks came a five-page communiqué. The volume of the prose was an unsuccessful attempt to conceal the lack of agreement in nearly every major area. Its chief news (apart from the fact that De Gaulle will visit Moscow) was that France and Russia had agreed to an exchange of scientific data -including information...
Shortly before Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. last year, Bulgaria's Ambassador to the U.N. signed a vaguely worded communiqué in Washington that the U.S. accepted as sufficient apology. A new Bulgarian minister took up his post in Washington praising "the spirit of Camp David," and last week, after a ten-year lapse, U.S. Minister Edward Page Jr., 54, arrived in Sofia to reopen the U.S. mission...
...influence in Asia to Peking. The Soviet leader attended a New Delhi ceremony at which his government extended $378 million credits to the Indians, and later he gave $250 million in low-interest loans to Indonesia. In Djakarta, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko did not insist that the final communiqué include the usual plea for Red China's admission to the U.N., the Indonesians having called the suggestion "inopportune"* ; Peking has been giving them a bad time over their law curbing overseas Chinese traders. And in Calcutta, where Khrushchev stopped over to meet Nehru and Burma's Prime...