Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need for more than one gunman in the assassination attempt, and the probability that "one of those there on the scene would be a kind of scapegoat-one had to be sacrificed." Discussing escape routes, Ferrie suggested flying to Brazil with a refueling stopover in Mexico, or directly to Cuba. Played in court later was a television interview that Russo gave to a Baton Rouge station last month in which he quoted Ferrie as saying, only a month before the assassination: "We will get him, and it won't be very long...
Died. Joseph T. Lykes Sr., 78, U.S. ship owner, last of seven brothers who founded Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. in 1923 to ferry cattle between Gulf ports and Cuba, boosted their business into the biggest U.S. cargo line operating 57 freighters; of arteriosclerosis; in Clearwater...
...months Latin America has buzzed with talk and tentative plans for a hemispheric summit conference that would bring together President Johnson and the leaders of 20 Latin American countries-all except Castro's Cuba. Last week in Buenos Aires' flag-bedecked Teatro San Martin, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the foreign ministers of the 20 countries involved reached final, formal agreement on the time, place and agenda. The meeting will be held April 12-14 at the sunny Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este. The agenda will include discussions on joint inter-American programs for electric...
...most of his speech before an assembly of metal workers in Havana, Cuba's Fidel Castro, 40, railed against the evils of creeping bureaucracy in his island paradise. Then he digressed for a while to savor one of the glorious advances of his revolution: ice-cream production. "Our ice cream can compete with the best ice creams in any part of the world," drooled Fidel, as the workers cheered. "Today we produce 26 flavors, and it's worth emphasizing that not once has one of the flavors failed. Never has the peak of quality been allowed to drop...
...hall from the operations center is a room papered with huge maps. On one set, the war in Viet Nam is plotted with up-to-the-hour reports of combat action and other trouble spots. Another chart may track the course of a Soviet ship bound from Odessa to Cuba-along with U.S. surveillance forces in the area...