Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Water Tower. There is bee-stinging humor and zany, zooming fantasy in this new satirical revue by the Second City troupe, as it buzzes busily around Cuba, camp counselors and bombshelter salesmen...
...visit to Cuba before the present Communist regime seized power, I remember being astonished by the number of students, probably members of the Young Students' Progressive League, continually agitating in front of Batista's sumptuous palace. As I stood on the Havana sidewalk marvelling at their perilous behavior, I wondered, "why don't American students demonstrate such courageous and determined political feelings?" My Cuban sojourn was during that fateful month of October, 1956, when, even in Havana news of the Hungarian student rioters headlined all the papers. Indeed, the Hungarian freedom-fighter was also a student, and we all lauded...
...Administration's policy of preventing Cuban exiles from taking military action against their Communist homeland. Said he: "It is very hard for me to understand why we are supporting in South Viet Nam freedom fighters, and why we are holding them back and preventing them from operating in Cuba 90 miles off our shore. I hope it is not as a means or as an endeavor to placate or to appease the Soviets...
...Rockefeller really mean to say that the Democratic Administration was following an "appeasement" policy toward Cuba? "No," said Rocky, "I said I hoped it wasn...
Clever people, these Indo-Chinese. After talking like a Hollywood scriptwriter, Deong begins to talk like a Communist agent ("Cuba is what you made it! . . . We don't want tanks from Wall Street!"). Brando sees red and decides Deong really must be one. With Washington's approval the ambassador launches a political offensive which backfires. Deong, driven to revolt, makes common cause with the Communists and overwhelms the rightist regime supported by the U.S. But on the eve of victory, Deong is assassinated by his Communist allies. Only Marlon Brando now stands between Southeast Asia...