Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuba "Folk Dances." He wrote of a nation and an ideology in deep ferment, belying the Communist theory that enough agitprop and malice can stop man's thoughts and instincts and create a horde of obedient automatons. On the contrary, wrote Salisbury, a large section of Russia's youth is rebellious and alive with foreign ideas in the wake of the long years of Stalinist repression. Salisbury does not ignore the millions of sober Communist youngsters who study hard in their schools and universities, or work enthusiastically in factories. But more importantly, said Salisbury, there is rising...
...solid repertory of Western numbers. When the bands stop playing, they switch on tape recordings made from broadcasts of Music U.S.A., a Voice of America program." Latin American music-the samba, the mambo, the cha cha cha-is also popular, often under the guise of "native folk dances" of Cuba, Russia's Communist friend. Though Russia has its brawling young nihilists, the day of the stilyagi (zoot suiters) is gone; more often youths are dressed in conservative grey with pencil-thin trousers. There is even a blue-jean fad, to the anger of militant party stalwarts, who note acidly...
...importance of Canada's trade with Fidel Castro's Cuba is not so much the money as the principle of the thing-and Canada and the U.S. incline to differ sharply on the principles at stake. When the U.S. first embargoed trade with Cuba in 1960, in retaliation for Castro's seizure of U.S. property, Canada decided that Washington's quarrel was none of its own. Canada has steadfastly declined even to join the Organization of American States. Going it alone, Canada's exports to Castro rose from $13 million to $24.5 million last year...
...House of Commons, Diefenbaker was asked for his reaction to Secretary of State Dean Rusk's hope that other countries would join the OAS in its quarantine of Castro. Enunciating the principle on which Canada not only trades with Cuba but last year concluded a whopping $425.6 million grain deal with Red China, Diefenbaker replied coldly: "The decision as to the course Canada shall take should be made by Canada on the basis of policies which she believes are appropriate to Canada...
...from Canada to promote subversion in Latin America, and whether the U.S. plans to ask Canada to cut them off, Rusk replied: "That is something we will take up." Diefenbaker's view is that there is nothing to take up. Noting that Canada's 1961 exports to Cuba (mostly farm products) were five times greater than its imports, Diefenbaker tartly observed that rather than provide Castro with dollars, Canada's trade absorbed them...