Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mail to the White House was running 12 to 1 in favor of the test ban pact, but only 2,000 citizens had written to the President about it in a week, compared to 40,000 during the four weeks of the Cuba crisis. And several Senators reported that in their mail they had heard from as many doubters as rejoicers...
...incredible proportions could overthrow Castro. Here people of both sexes and of every age carry guns and are capable of either murdering the government leaders -or over throwing the government if discontented. We regret that the American people are deprived of the facts of the socialist revolution in Cuba." Fidel Castro could not have said it better, but for his pur poses the propaganda was far more valuable, coming as it did from 58 youth ful, presumably open-minded American "students"* who have been making news for a month on a forbidden junket to Cuba. Last week...
...into the travelers for a lack of "concern for the security and foreign policy objectives of the United States" and called their leaders Communists. The excursion, paid for partly by the Castro government, was organized in San Francisco and New York by mem bers of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, long since shown to be supported by Castro cash...
...avoid a State Department ban on travel to Cuba, the 58 had to fly expensively roundabout courses to London, Paris, Amsterdam and Prague before winging on to Havana on Czechoslovak Airlines. They were lionized by President Osvaldo Dorticós, Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, Communist Boss Blas Roca and, of course, Fidel himself, who skindived with them near the Bay of Pigs and played pingpong with them at Varadero. ("I give up," California Student Eric Johnson gasped. "What you are doing to me is another Bay of Pigs.") They visited shipyards, collective farms and schools, squeezed...
Washington protested. The Swiss simply rejected the decree, calling it "unacceptable"-an attitude that seemed to take the Cubans by surprise. If Castro decides to use force to oust the Swiss from the building, the U.S. will probably hale Cuba before the U.N. and charge it with violating international...