Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsstands in Communist countries, though a number of copies go to top officials, curious, we suppose, about what's going on in the world, or at least what a Western journal says is going on in the world. Though there is no official ban on us in Cuba, distributors are afraid to handle TIME there for fear of trouble. In the past year, nine issues of TIME have been confiscated in the Dominican Republic (about as many under Ramfis Trujillo as under his assassinated father). We are currently banned in Spain and Portugal and their colonies, and in Indonesia...
...Along the sea wall in Santo Domingo crowds hopefully awaited the return of U.S. Navy warships, which once before guaranteed the republic's budding democracy. But in Washington, with the Punta del Este meeting on Cuba about to begin, President Kennedy decided on less conspicuous muscle flexing. U.S. Charge d'Affaires John Calvin Hill Jr., who was in Washington to advise on resuming help to the Dominicans, was sent back to his post with orders to put pressure on Rodriguez Echavarria...
...Uruguayan seaside resort called Punta del Este, 21 nations of the Western Hemisphere gather this week to decide whether to censure Castro, crowd him with sanctions, or merely live in discomfort with him. Castro himself is taking the meeting seriously. Heading Cuba's 40-man delegation to the hemispheric foreign ministers' meeting is his puppet President, Osvaldo Dorticós, a traveler to Moscow who ran for local office on the Communist ticket as far back as 1948. At his elbow as the delegation's "adviser" is Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, editor of Cuba's Communist daily...
From all signs, they would peddle a soft coexistence line, arguing that Cuba's Marxist course is its own, and that it has no designs on other countries, and thus should not be ostracized. For weeks Castro's pitchmen have been haunting Latin American foreign ministries, berating the U.S. and stressing Cuba's traditional ties with its neighbors...
Under the Sugar Act, the Kennedy Administration has the right to give sugar allotments that would once have gone to Cuba to other sugar growing nations. Balaguer's government, among others, had been promised an increase in the Dominican Republic's sugar quota amounting to $45 million. In its present state, the country needs the money badly...