Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...substitute for free elections, it is a humane action. The U.S. should reciprocate by encouraging the emigration from the U.S. of the small minority, including teach-in enthusiasts and Berkeley draft-card burners, dissatisfied with our country and its policies, so that they can seek a happier life in Cuba, North Viet Nam or any other paradise...
Power of Persuasion. If and when Havana and Washington agree on a formula, the U.S. hopes to begin shuttling refugees from Cuba within ten days. Until then, the U.S. is doing its best to keep Cuban exiles from grabbing every little outboard and runabout in Florida and dashing across the stormy, shark-infested Straits of Florida on rescue missions. All last week a doz en Coast Guard helicopters and patrol boats prowled the area with orders to use "every means of persuasion" to keep the exiles from taking things into their own hands. The U.S. even threatened them with civil...
...Castro Circus. Those returning from Cuba told stories of a typical Castro Circus at Camarioca, the "international port" that Castro created 65 miles east of Havana for use by refugees. Among the first U.S. newsmen to visit was TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan. The port's main feature is a fenced-off compound sprawling across some four acres along the narrow Camarioca River. At the dock, an "immigration official" introduced himself ("just call me Roberto") and motioned toward 300 Cubans milling around across the river. "When a boat arrives for them," he said, "we will notify them and admit them...
Where he was and what he was doing were still intriguing questions. U.S Intelligence professed to know nothing One possibility was that Che was still in Cuba, either dead, or in prison If not, the April date referred to by Castro revived the rumors of last spring that Che had been killed in the first days of the Dominican civil...
...alive and out of Cuba he could be anywhere. Miami's anti-Castro exiles twanged with speculation that Che was with the guerrillas in Peru in Colombia, in Guatemala, that he was in the Congo trying to salvage that badly fought rebellion, or (most farfetched of the rumors) maybe even in Viet...