Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combination of malnutrition, beatings and general misuse. The sisters all married anti-Trujillo husbands-a lawyer, an engineer, a farmer. In 1957 the three couples began organizing an underground opposition to the Dictator among the Dominican Republic's middle and professional classes; after the failure of a Cuba-based airborne invasion in 1959, the underground movement took as its name the date of the failure-the 14th of June. Last January, as the 14th of June gathered strength to strike at Trujillo, the Dictator got word of the plot and cracked down...
...Cuba's new revolutionaries may not be very well organized, but they are learning, and they mean what they say. The Havana resistance promised Fidel Castro no rest-no rest is what he is getting. In the early morning one day last week, eight bombs exploded in the city, knocking out the electricity in a fifth of Havana, including the business district. Burning phosphorous sticks went into the mail drops at the central post office to burn the day's mail collection; another bomb burst a water pipe at an intersection...
...opposition's strongest blow to date found Castro showing signs of strain. El Mundo Editor Luis Gomez Wanguermert, a Castro spokesman, said flatly: "Cuba would welcome any relaxation of tension with the U.S." A few nights later at Havana University, Castro himself announced: "The Cuban revolution does not have to be exported...
...second speaker, Rober Taber, former CBS correspondent in Cuba and now executive secretary of the newly formed National Fair Play for Cuba Committee, declared that opposition to state department Cuban policy "constantly on the rise...
Taber also emphasized that the Committee has a "long way to go. In fact, I've met people just recently who think that Cuba belongs to the United States." The speaker hoped that President-elect Kennedy was "only kidding" when he offered during the campaign to support Cuban counter-revolutionaries...