Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense replied that genocide is not defined in any penal code in force in Cuba. Moreover, said the defense, although the airmen by their own count dropped 6,080 bombs and fired 5,000,000 machine-gun bullets, they deliberately misdirected their fire, dropped their bombs outside the target area, sabotaged bombs so they would not explode, falsified their flight reports. As evidence of this, the defense pointed to the small toll...
Sitting in Santiago de Cuba, capital of Castro's Oriente province wartime stronghold, the three-man tribunal of Castro rebels made two main points. They acknowledged that many attacked villages were legitimate military targets, since "our forces were in most of them," added that "it has not been possible to identify which of the accused on trial here were those who produced the deaths...
...Caused a mild flap in Washington over his acceptance of an invitation of the American Society of Newspaper Editors to address their April 17 meeting there. As Cuba's Prime Minister, Castro should have sent his intention to visit the U.S. through diplomatic channels. Just the same, said the State Department, he "will assuredly be welcomed...
...down on the side porch of his villa outside Havana one afternoon to get acquainted with new U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsai. "Friendly, cordial and knowledgeable about Cuba," said Castro. "A good ambassador...
Nobody would suggest that the problems Cuba faces have not been real and difficult, but after four hundred executions and two months' suspension of constitutional rights, it is depressing to find the abuses of legal procedure growing even more acute. As an ex-lawyer, Fidel Castro is making a thorough success of destroying...