Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will prevent him from participating in a U.S. television debate with Richard Goodwin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, will almost certainly increase Latin America's mistrust of the U.S.'s motives. Mexico, battling to maintain neutrality between the giant on the north and a little Cuba feeling new Marxist-Leninist oats, is particularly sensitive to American slights...
...elections--but few Argentines were. Ecuador reaches the front pages in times of revolt, but not when it revises its banking structure. And subscribers rarely even hear about the rest of that large continent, for a Caribbean island occupies the exclusive attention of most newspaper staffs: exhaustive stories on Cuba continue to occupy the attention of valuable men, especially liberals, whose energy and indignation could with great profit be diverted to other problems...
...revolution in a raffle?" cried Castro. The "boastfulness" of the old Communist militants and the belief that those who do not belong to them are not able to occupy important posts is an "absurd, negative, stupid policy. Let there be an end to all speakers of garbage." Cuba's Prime Minister made it clear that he still considers himself a Communist: "The revolution is absolutely defined as Marxist-Leninist." But he was the man in charge, and his brother Raúl from now on was Vice Premier...
Canadian Correspondent Gerald Clark of the Montreal Star recently returned to Cuba for his first visit in a year. He was stunned: "An entire nation is on the edge of starvation." And as the Bay of Pigs prisoners went on trial, he recalled a whispered conversation with a Cuban...
...produce one column weekly, entitled "A Conservative Voice," for Sunday publication. The voice of conservatism is delighted at the chance to holler for his cause. "Conservatism," says he, "is very much alive and getting more so all the time. It's a marvelous reaction against the welfare state. Cuba, Belgrade and Russian testing enhanced the trend. So does Kennedy, who doesn't have the remotest idea of what to do, what buttons to push in that wonderful technical apparatus he is heading. And before long that liberal monopoly in our universities will be broken too. Conserva tive professors...