Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...panicked, remembered "Cuba," Josts its senses, and flooded the country with troops. Claiming to be "neutral," the U.S. contingent promptly reinforced the retreating and broken right-wing of the Dominican military. The revolution, so near victory, was first blunted, then squeezed into the older portions of Santo Domingo, and finally forced to surrender. The old clique of generals, so near defeat, was brought back to life with rapid infusions of weapons, money, men, and encouragement. Finally, after the political "balance" had been firmly re-established, the U.S. created a provisional government, set a date for elections, and withdrew its peace...
...Arthur M. Schleinger Jr. describes in A Thousand Days Reston recommended that the Times not publish a story Tad Szule filed from Miami in 1961 reporting that a landing on Cuba seemed imminent. "Reston counselled against publication: either the story would alter Castro, in which case the Times would be responsible for casualties on the beach, or else the expidition would be cancelled in which case the Times would be responsible for grave interference with national policy...
...Folk Singer Joan Baez, the book is fashionably half-coherent, a collection of Kerouacky kinks. Gnossos turns on four times a day, calls girls "man," says "dig" a great deal, makes like the Green Hornet with cringing officials at Mentor University, rucksacks triumphantly to Mexico, Las Vegas and Cuba, knows how to hot-wire a car, plays Corelli on his phonograph, and even wins acceptance as an equal by Negro bartenders. Most readers will be more discriminating. Kerouac had a likable knack for making his zaps and zowies add up, against all probability, to a goofy, over-the-wall...
...alone-five plane passengers who had "paid various sums of money to Betancourt so that he would include them on the trip." Fidel Castro blamed the whole unhappy incident on "Yankee imperialist policy that constantly stimulates and pays deserters," but he was clearly even madder that Betancourt had eluded Cuba's porous security system for so long...
...escape, and newspapers ran pictures of the captured Betancourt with the two friars, together with shots of his hiding place, with its prominently displayed crucifix and holy pictures. Many Cubans believe that this means a new anti-church campaign against the few Catholic priests still remaining in Cuba. Since taking power in 1959, Castro has whittled their numbers from 600 to 220. As if to confirm fears of a further crack down, the government announced that forthwith priests and seminarians will be called up for military service...