Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...events in another country." A top State Department official interpreted: "We're waiting to see what happens." Ecuador & Peru. What happens could spread explosively beyond Argentina's borders. In Ecuador last week, army officers ordered President Carlos Julio Arosemena to break relations with Castro's Cuba, touching off a crisis in which Aro-semena's entire Cabinet resigned. In Peru, where a leader of Latin America's non-Communist left, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, is running strong for next June's presidential elections, the Peruvian army promised to block...
After a wait of nearly a year, Cuba's Communist regime put on trial the 1,179 hapless exiles captured in last April's abortive Bay of Pigs invasion. In sharp contrast to the televised circus of the men's initial interrogation, the trial was held in secret behind the walls of Havana's Príncipe prison. The regime posted no formal charges, announced merely that a five-man military tribunal would act as both judge and jury. No friends or relatives of the men were allowed in to see what went on. Only Cuban...
...radio and TV, Fidel Castro himself gave evidence that the island's Communist regime may be coming apart at the seams. In a three-hour diatribe, Castro denounced Cuba's official Communist Party and admitted to a bitter fight for supremacy between himself and the old-line professionals...
...biggest headlines last week. In the book, Nixon accuses Kennedy of "jeopardizing the security of a United States foreign policy operation" in mid-campaign. Kennedy, he says, had been briefed on the CIA's program of secretly arming and training anti-Castro exiles for an invasion of Cuba, and there after deliberately advocated a similar program -''in effect, direct intervention," writes Xixon - in a campaign statement. This, says Nixon, compelled him to denounce the Kennedy program as "dangerously irresponsible," even though he had known about the invasion plan and supported it. He says he did this...
...death!" slogans appeared on streetcar islands and walls. Framini, although an anti-Communist and a practicing Roman Catholic, began campaigning against Frondizi for selling out to "Yankee imperialism." Che Guevara's Red mother Celia showed up at Per&243;nista rallies, asking that"the voice of Cuba, sister of Per&243;nism, be heard." The Per&243;nistas had no need to ask what little support Argentina's tiny (estimated membership: 100,000) Communist Party could offer. In the end, it was given just the same...