Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because Peking is beginning to look like a loser, its position is markedly deteriorating just about everywhere. Cuba has slammed the door in its face be cause it welshed on a rice deal (TIME, Feb. 18). Last week in Indonesia, once the brightest Red Chinese hope in Southeast Asia, the deputy chairman of the Communist Party went on trial for leading a revolt against the government, and the now-dominant army leaders huffily withdrew their ambassador to Peking for "consultation." Peking has fallen into disrepute in most of Africa, where it has failed to produce on its big promises...
...cigars are the best. When he sensed the shift of politics in Cuba, he bought 3,000 of his favorite Upmann Montecristos at 75é apiece, and had them stored in the humidor in Manhattan's "21" Club, from which he draws, in miserly fashion, enough for two or three smokes a day. "It's not a vice," he explains. "If I couldn't get the right brands, I wouldn't smoke at all. You know, in films when a soldier is dying, the first thing they do is stuff a cigarette into his mouth, and he dies happily...
...were delighted when he shifted his biting invective to a surprise target: Red China. In Havana's Communist daily Granma,* Fidel Castro spelled out the whole ugly story of how Peking had not only "committed a criminal act of economic aggression" by reducing its 1966 rice shipments to Cuba, but had also sent huge amounts of propaganda material into the country in an attempt to enlist the army for Peking's espionage purposes. "We have liberated ourselves from imperialism 90 miles from our shore," declared Fidel. "We are not willing to allow another powerful state 12,000 miles...
Castro upset these calculations by criticizing Red China for cutting its rice shipments to Cuba, thus reducing the average Cuban's monthly rice ration from six to three pounds. Peking's parsimony did not sit well with delegates from other hungry, have-not countries. Meanwhile, the Soviets adroitly outflanked the Chinese with a pledge to support wars of liberation in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Guatemala. Moscow handed out $3,000,000 to Latin American delegates, and even promised Russian advisers for a worldwide "liberation committee...
Ernest Hemingway met A. E. Hotchner in 1948, and the world-famous novelist and the relatively unknown magazine writer soon became fast friends. They went fishing together in Cuba, watched bullfights in Spain, hunted the pheasant country of Idaho, and toured France. "Papa" and "Hotch" got along so well together that Papa gave his friend the right to adapt some of his novels and short stories for movies and TV. And because they were inseparable companions, Hotch became aware of Papa's gradually increasing periods of depression, his dark and suicidal moods. There was a time when Hemingway tried...