Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patrol boat that had been sailed to the U.S. by three defecting Castro navymen. By last week he had a buyer ready to pay $55,000 for the vessel-when the U.S. State Department suddenly announced that the boat was protected by diplomatic immunity and must be returned to Cuba. Although the State Department claimed that no "swap" was involved, it was hardly a coincidence that that same day Castro released an Eastern Air Lines Electra valued at $2,500,000, that had been hijacked and flown to Havana on July 24th. Harris reluctantly released the boat. Said...
Delegates to the Alliance for Progress conference in Punta del Este fell silent as bearded Che Guevara, the Kremlin's best friend in Cuba, stood up to deliver his final pitch. "Cuba's delegation has asked again and again and never has received an answer whether Cuba has the right to participate in the Alliance for Progress," said Che smoothly. "Cuba's socioeconomic system may be different from the rest of the nations of this continent, but Cuba nevertheless is part of the whole. The first mark of coexistence is the peaceful recognition of the system...
...Guevara talked. He kept on writing even after Guevara finished and slumped into his chair amidst eloquent silence. Then Dillon waved his Estados Unidos name plate at the chairman, and stood up to reply. Castro would get no U.S. aid, no U.S. recognition, said Dillon. "Unfortunately, the delegate of Cuba has tried to give the implication that the U.S. somehow recognizes the permanence of the present regime in Cuba. This we do not do and never will do, because to do so would be to betray the thousands of patriotic Cubans who are still waiting and struggling for the freedom...
Misunderstood Cousin. For 13 days, Che had been wheeling, dealing, and stealing the scene at Punta del Este without provoking a U.S. reply. Only too well aware that support is being organized throughout the hemisphere to ostracize Castro's Communist dictatorship, Che set out to show that Cuba is still a member of the hemispheric family. He proved himself an able tactician, here offering a "helpful" resolution, there playing the misunderstood cousin, everywhere extending well-mannered coexistence. Nuzzling up to Brazilian Delegate Clemente Mariani, Che was well rewarded by a Mariani public statement gushing over "how encouraging...
...around uninvited to the meeting room, stirred up quite a commotion trying to get in, then withdrew looking hurt. In the end, at Brazil's insistence, Beltran's proposals were watered down to a mere stated preference for representative democracy. It was Che himself who then placed Cuba squarely outside the hemisphere alliance of the other 20 nations by refusing to sign the Declaration of Punta del Este...