Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuban Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara; discussing the U.S. embargo of Cuba...
...atmosphere in Cuba is just like it was in November 1958, right before Batista fell," reported a traveler from Havana last week. The traveler was only partly right; Fidel Castro is far stronger than Batista. But for the first time last week, the rebellion against Castro spread out to ordinary people and set the island alight with a curious kind of spontaneous, uncoordinated, often futile combustion. So wide and so fast did it spread that the exile leaders plotting against Castro in Miami and Manhattan lagged far behind...
...over the island, Cubans bracketed Havana with little acts of defiance. ¶At Corralillo, 100 miles eastward, on Cuba's north coast, farmers fed up with Castro's unkept promises, rose and fought his militia for two days...
...pretty, excited girl might have been chanting "We want a touchdown." But she was yelling something else, and for a moment the meaning did not register. Then it did, with a shock: "Cuba, si; Yanki...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Columbia University Professor C. Wright Mills and former Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. ponder U.S. policies toward Latin America and Cuba...