Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against Cuba because of the lame Administration stand on integration thus far. When the group suggested to Bobby that the President might help the situation by making a dramatic public appearance-such as personally escorting a Negro into the University of Alabama -the Attorney General laughed in his disbelief that it could be a serious proposal. Dr. Kenneth Clark, Negro psychologist at New York's City College, said later: "There was no communication. I think we might as well have been talking different languages...
...story of what goes on behind the walls of Fidel Castro's political prisons has been carried out of Cuba by refugees. Sometimes the fragments have been recorded publicly; more often they have not. Two and a half years ago, the Organization of American States' Commission on Human Rights started gathering the pieces from relatives and friends of prisoners, and from many ex-prisoners themselves. The OAS report, now published, is the most comprehensive and authoritative study yet put together on Communist Cuba's treatment of political offenders...
...according to a former special Presidential adviser on Latin American affairs. Adolf A. Berle claims that between 2,500 and 10,000 French-speaking African Communists arrived in Havana early in May with Haiti as a final destination. "Some are said already to have crossed the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti by small boats, infiltrating the Haitian mountains," Mr. Berle wrote in the May 23 Reporter...
Scholars of Revolution. Javier's companions were all university students from upper-or middle-class families. All had traveled to Cuba on scholarships, all had been persuaded to attend Che Guevara's terrorism and guerrilla warfare school at Minas del Frio, all had sneaked back into Peru across the Bolivian border with arms, supplies and money. Their objective, said one of the survivors, was to infiltrate and agitate workers' and peasants' unions in order to prepare the way for the Peruvian revolution. According to the Peruvian government, these seven were only a small part...
...people who should know better seem to believe him-the incident in Puerto Maldonado pointed up the dangerous truth. Wrote the editor of Lima's La Prensa, former Premier Pedro Beltran: "Peru, and every American country including the U.S., will remain subject to grave danger as long as Cuba is permitted to operate as a center of ideological, military and economic subversion for Communism...