Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waste and graft are high. After Peru contracted to buy four submarines from the U.S.'s General Dynamics Corp, word leaked out that the nephew of the navy minister who ordered the subs stood to collect a $300,000 "commission." The latest scandal brewing is in Cuba, where Fidel Castro agreed to pay $150 each for 24,000 Belgian automatic rifles worth $75 each. The fancy equipment is often short-lived. Days after Ecuador got three Canberra turbojet bombers, a mechanic cracked up two of them taxiing on the landing strip...
...Algerian rebels had been holding off any negotiations with France hoping to make a show of world backing in the U.N. Last year they had come within one vote of a two-thirds majority in the General Assembly, and at least one nation-Castro's Cuba-had indicated it would change its vote in Algeria's favor this year...
...behind bars, and Evelyn Hill, safely back in Miami, was being kept under wraps by the Herald. Clearly Fidel Castro, who ordered the arrest of three other newsmen last week,*was making a point in his own theatrical way: "foreign" reporters are not welcome in Fidel Castro's Cuba...
...merely reacting, has lately done so intelligently. A Caribbean arms embargo coupled with an obvious show of patience toward Cuba has taken any hemisphere-wide punch out of Castro's anti-Yankee tirades. Current U.S. investment policies are increasingly based on partnership (see below). The Inter-American Bank, mostly U.S. financed, will be in business just as soon as the remaining 18 of the 20 Latin American countries cough up their donations...
Strenuous & Serious. Though CBC scorns the rating game,*its prize shows are highly popular. Closeup sends cameramen anywhere (Cuba, Egypt, Taiwan), interviews anyone (Evelyn Waugh, Brigitte Bardot), tackles any subject (homosexuality in Canada). CBC is strong on serious drama (recent example: The Crucible') and occasionally goes all out for esoterica: it spent $147,376 on a full-length production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes. On CBC Folio the Winnipeg Ballet and the Toronto Symphony lure more than 1,000,000 viewers. Says CBC Vice President Ronald Fraser: "We do not degrade viewers to a type...