Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lately presented the incongruous figure of a Milquetoast engaged in a street brawl. Unwilling to dirty its hands, it has allowed itself to be pushed into the gutter by the left and right of Laos and Cuba. Eventually we will be surely beaten if we do not fight back...
After reading your detailed account of Jacqueline's trip, I could only wish that the invasion of Cuba had been half as well planned as Jackie's invasion of Paris...
...burgeoning humanitarian impulse. Son of a semiskilled truck-plant laborer. Honore was the first Negro to be elected student-body president at Capital University, a Lutheran school in a suburb of Columbus, where he got his B.S. in physics and math. A 1959 trip to Castro's Cuba in a National Students Association delegation was an eye-opener: "I saw these people in the rural areas living under the most adverse conditions while the rich in the cities lived in luxury." He will suspend his Ph.D. work at Ohio State to join the corps, but he is no Cloud...
...marathon of press conferences and tours, the first U.S. newsmen permitted into Cuba since the invasion were treated to the spectacle of Castro the leader, Castro the soldier, Castro the continental showman. The correspondents had barely unpacked their suitcases when Castro in vited them into his office in the Agrarian Reform Building for a two-hour interview. Next day, it was off on a 14-hour guided tour past cheering collections of collectivized peasants to the Bay of Pigs...
...have been able to do since the invasion is hide and whisper," said Pepe. Castro boasts that he has 500,000 of Cuba's 6,000,000 people spying for him. On the 15-mile drive from his home to Havana, Pepe had to run ten checks: "Each time, they open the hood and look for guns in the engine. They look under the seat, in the trunk, everywhere. They take pictures, too," said Pepe, "of people going to church, going into certain offices, even just on the street." Recently, a wounded saboteur was making his confession...