Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already being blasted from left and right," says Fleischer. "The rightists don't want Che glorified, and the leftists are sure their idol will be defiled." As for the Cu bans, says Fleischer, "I don't think we'll be playing Che in Cuba-though they might acquire a print so they can shoot at the screen...
...revolting, highhanded, indefensible action of the "Imperial" Russian government in Czechoslovakia is a clear, unequivocal mandate to the U.S. to move at once on Cuba. Not only that, it proves to every reasonable human being how wise, how farseeing, how absolutely necessary is our policy in Southeast Asia. Was ever a belabored, pummeled, meanly assailed President so completely vindicated, so dramatically proved right...
...radically enlightened individual invest his passion and get a steady and satisfying return? Revolutionary politics has its possibilities but, as Cohen notes in his poem Kerensky, the vision of revolution is all too brief. Cohen's own experiences in this area include a disappointing 1961 adventure in Cuba as a would-be volunteer for Castro just before the Bay of Pigs invasion...
...them, North Viet Nam and Cuba, are heavily dependent on Russian arms and aid. The third, North Korea, customarily sides with the Russians in the Sino-Soviet dispute. On the other hand, the most biting protest of all came from, of all places, China. Mao and Co. would not think of tolerating a Dubcek in China, and they have berated Moscow precisely because it has been soft on reformers and "revisionists." Logically, therefore, the Chinese should have given the Russians good marks for learning their lesson. But Peking seized the opportunity to rip Moscow. "This is the most barefaced...
...Communists most in areas where local feeling runs high against foreign intervention and where the Communists themselves had pounded away hardest at U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic. Throughout Asia, Communists felt uncomfortable about the Russian actions. With the exception of Castro's party in Cuba, Latin American Communists broke with Moscow. But the most agonized reaction of all came from the Communist parties of Western Europe. In the early 1950s, the Western European parties abandoned their revolutionary tactics and went respectable. Since then, they have been trying, with only a fair amount of success...