Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burma, Ceylon, Ghana, Guinea, Ethiopia, Sudan, India, Indonesia, Yemen, Cambodia, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United Arab Republic, Lebanon, Algerian Provisional Government (F.L.N.), Tunisia, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Cuba, Iraq, Yugoslavia; observer nations: Brazil, Bolivia. Possible participant: Cyrille Adoula of the Congo...
Bickering Prelude. It was a characteristically headlong performance by the 44-year-old politico, who took office seven months ago with the biggest popular majority in Brazilian history. It came after a week of feuding and fussing, touched off-not surprisingly-by the warmth of Quadros' welcome for Cuba's homeward-bound economic czar, Che Guevara. The Cuban did not arrive on schedule. Row on row of officials were left waiting at the Brasilia airport. When Che finally arrived without warning the next day, only a few mechanics were on hand. Quadros later put on his best blue...
People to People. Che even managed to have a talk with U.S. Presidential Adviser Richard Goodwin, 30, in Montevideo. With Cuba's economic plight growing daily more desperate (see below), Che's entire pitch at the conference was his desire for coexistence. According to reports, he sent Goodwin a box of Havana cigars with a note: "As writing to an enemy is difficult-and I am not good at writing-I hereby extend my hand." The two finally got together at a birthday open-house party at the apartment of a Brazilian diplomat named Gerson Augusto da Silva...
...ought to thank the U.S., said Che, because it gave Castro the victory he needed to achieve world prestige. Answered Goodwin: It was too bad Castro had not followed it up by an attack on the U.S. Guantánamo Naval Base. Che replied that under no circumstances would Cuba attack...
Castro's man then got down to business. He said that his people needed more consumer goods, and wanted peace with the U.S. Cuba was willing to compensate the losses suffered by expropriated U.S. companies. As for those Red weapons and advisers, said Che smoothly, "we do not have, nor intend to have, any political or military alliance with anyone unless we are pressed toward it." All the U.S. had to accept was the fact that the Castro revolution was "irreversible...