Word: cuba
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 15--Rebel leader Fidel Castro warned the United States sharply today against meddling with Cuba's revolutionary justice. He declared that if U.S. Marines were sent to this island nation "200,000 gringos will...
Executions in Cuba Continue...
...HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 14--The reported toll of revolutionary war crimes executions soared today to 180. Rebel chieftain Fidel Castro declared they will continue regardless of world opinion...
...July movement for the day the attack failed, went into Mexican exile, returned to invade Oriente province with 81 men aboard the yacht Gramma on Dec. 2, 1956. Castro likes to sit about a campfire and talk military science, citing Rommel and Napoleon, and discussing romantic proposals for Cuba, e.g., a school-city for 20,000 children. In 1953 he called for nationalization of U.S.-owned public utilities in Cuba, land reform and industrial profit-sharing; he now calls these "radical ideas not good for Cuba." He goes on the assumption that Cuba must get along with...
Manuel Urrutia Lleo, 57, a colorless career jurist from Santiago, gained Castro's admiration 19 months ago by voting to release a group of rebel prisoners on the ground that revolution in Cuba is a constitutional right. Batista forced him into exile; he lived in the New York borough of Queens. He is antiCommunist, pro-U.S. Castro barely knew him before choosing him for the presidency...