Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend, Millionaire Broker Earl E. T. Smith, as U.S. Ambassador to Bern. Smith's qualifications for the post were hardly self-evident. But Switzerland also had a technical objection: Smith's one venture into diplomacy was as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador to Batista's Cuba; his appointment would embarrass the Swiss in carrying out their neutral chore of representing the ambassador-less U.S. in Castro's Cuba. Republican Smith at last got the hint, gracefully withdrew his name...
...series of invasions from abroad, coupled with the uprisings within Cuba, will overthrow Castro, George Casteleiro, a former law student at the University of Havana maintained at a Young Americans for Freedom meeting in Harkness Commons. A former professor at the University of Havana and a second Cuban student--both of whom asked to remain unidentified because of relatives in Cuba--also spoke...
...Bern, the Swiss cabinet took the unusual step of formally delaying its acceptance of Earl E. T. Smith, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Cuba and longtime millionaire Republican golfing pal of Jack Kennedy and Father Joe. Swiss Ambassador Auguste R. Lindt huddled with Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles to discuss the Smith appointment. Swiss authorities pointed out the technicalities that 1) Smith has done little to disguise his fondness for deposed Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista, and 2) Switzerland represents U.S. interests to the government of current Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro. While inspired Swiss newspaper editorials denounced the Smith appointment...
...tartly: "We rejoice to hear the Soviet denounce political assassination with such vehemence . . . We condemn any death without due process of law, whether of African politicians, Hungarian patriots, or Tibetan nationalists ... As to colonialism, my country fought colonialism in 1776 . . . and my countrymen have died to end colonialism in Cuba, though some Cubans seem to have forgotten...
...hundred miles southwest of Havana in south central Cuba lies the Sierra Escambray, an area of precipitous hills pocked with large caves and dominated by two 3,000-ft. peaks. The Escambray is fine country to hide in. Since May 1960, when the first anti-Communist defectors from Fidel Castro's army took refuge there, the number of guerrillas fighting Castro from the Escambray has swelled to some 1 ,000 men. By last week whispered tales seeping out of Cuba told of pitched, no quarter battles in the Escambray and of hospitals overflowing with wounded. The reality...