Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just a year before, in the midst of his annual reception for the members of the Congress, Kennedy had learned that the U.S.-backed Cuba invasion had turned into a fiasco. Last week, on the date of Blough's White House visit, Kennedy was scheduled to greet the Congressmen again. Said he, with grim humor: "I'll never have another congressional reception...
...Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram, a staunch 1960 supporter of Nixon, commented dryly: "One especially wonders how he'd have explained himself if he had been elected President-committed and willing to execute the Cuba plan that he had denounced as 'dangerously irresponsible.' " Last week the left-wing Nation triumphantly flushed another controversy from Nixon's book. "Richard M. Nixon," it said, "has just kicked a large hole in his -and the Government's - case against Alger Hiss." The hole: Nixon's statement that FBI agents in December 1948 had found...
...last year before Castro, Cuba had 6,600 physicians; since then, 2,000 doctors have fled Cuba, and 1,500 of them are in the U.S. A fortnight ago, in a Miami auditorium, the "Faculty in Exile" of the University of Havana's once highly rated School of Medicine graduated 152 exiled doctors who had taken its refresher course in medicine and qualifying courses in English. After that, the doctors took the tough screening examination set up by the U.S. Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates; about 80% are expected to pass. Since most states make U.S. citizenship...
...little more than a year ago. A difficult emergency operation in one of Miami's public hospitals came at the end of a long, hard day, and nerves were frayed as the surgeons hurried to get out of the operating room. Even so, a surgeon trained in Cuba was shocked to hear a colleague bark at a male scrub nurse: "Get out of my way, you Cuban nigger!" The surgical nurse was an exile who had been a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Havana...
Psychiatric Training. Almost to a man, the doctors say that they left Cuba because they could not stomach the loss of freedom under Castro-for themselves as physicians, for their children as future citizens. Castro's policies have made a mockery of medicine. To head one reputable clinic, the regime nominated a janitor. In a major clinic it installed the barber as administrator, with the switchboard operator as his assistant. Says one displaced doctor: "Practice is terrible...