Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made a lightning decision, pressed the destruction button on a malfunctioning satellite rocket, and fragments weighing up to 40 Ibs. showered down within ten miles of Holguin (pop. 70,000). In normal times the incident would be covered by an embarrassed apology; in the anti-U.S. atmosphere of Cuba the effect was hopelessly inflammatory. Revolution, Castro's mouthpiece, exploded at a "new Yankee provocation." Nor was the U.S. very conciliatory: to Cuba went a note curtly asking for the fragments back...
...boys heading into hills that still hide some 300 oppositionists. Dr. Fajardo opened fire and was shot dead in the fight. Fidel Castro gave Fajardo the revolutionary version of a Chicago-style funeral, and bitterly blamed "the bandits of the Pentagon." Meanwhile, in Peking, "Che" Guevara got for Cuba's bare-larder economy the biggest foreign loan Red China ever made-$60 million for five years at no interest. It was growing difficult for Cuba to turn back, or even pause...
While Havana undergoes its trial by bomb, another city, 200 miles across the Florida Straits, has become a Cuban refugee camp. By fishing boat and by yacht, by commercial airliner or hijacked plane, an estimated 500 Cubans each day are now fleeing Castro's Cuba, and most of them converge on Miami. By last week an incongruous lump of more than 30,000 worried Cubans had crowded into the winter vacationland, and more were coming...
...Revolutionary Front, a five-group coalition coordinated by ex-Premier Manuel ("Tony") Varona, 51, has a big brick building and the best financing; the Revolutionary Movement of the People (M.R.P.), headed by Engineer Manuel Ray, 37, has less money but is believed to operate the most effective underground inside Cuba. Both make only the smallest dent in the mass of jobless, moneyless Cubans...
...million special contingencies' fund for Miami refugee aid, mostly to resettle the unemployed exiles in areas offering jobs. In making available the money, Ike invoked a Mutual Security Act clause authorizing assistance to refugees from Communism, and thus for the first time the U.S. officially labeled Cuba...