Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saudi Arabia's Ibraham Sowail and Iraq's Hashim Jawad. Prime Ministers: Afghanistan's Sardar Mohammed Baud, the Algerian F.L.N.'s Youssef Ben Khedda, Burma's U Nu, Ceylon's Mme. Bandaranaike, India's Nehru and Lebanon's Saeb Salaam. Presidents: Cuba's Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, Ghana's Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno, Mali's Keita, Somalia's Adben Abdullah Osman, the Sudan's Ibrahim Abboud, Tunisia's Bourguiba and the U.A.R.'s Nasser...
...Khedda was shunted to a minor Cabinet post, and became the first F.L.N. dignitary to lead an official mission to Red China. After touring other Communist countries as an ambassador at large, he turned up as a persuasive F.L.N. propagandist in Latin America, and received a VIP welcome from Cuba's Fidel Castro...
Some Congressmen urge President Kennedy to invoke the Trading with the Enemy Act and thus halt U.S.-Cuba trade altogether. Kennedy has held back. The threat remains, and the U.S. is ready to act if Castro makes another rash move...
...Like Tito." Jagan's main hope to knit his fractured country together is massive aid from abroad. With Cuba, he has a deal to export rice and timber in return for a Castro-confiscated printing plant. But to the U.S., he cooed that he does not intend to fulfill an old pledge to nationalize the sugar and bauxite industries. When final independence is won, he intends to join the Organization of American States. He wants to travel to the U.S. this fall to talk over his share of the Alliance for Progress with President Kennedy, and sees no reason...
...settle in one place for long. He worked in Prague and in France, where he became the devoted friend of Sculptor Aristide Maillol. He escaped to Spain when the Nazis swept into France, only to be thrown into jail for illegal entry. Released without explanation, he got to Cuba and from there to New York. His troubles were far from over. Two or three museums bought sculptures from him; a few major group shows exhibited him; sales were so few that at one point Reder and his wife had scarcely enough to eat. Even today a $10,000 Ford Foundation...