Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something in him that could rouse the noisier Republicans to fits of righteous indignation. In the end, too, some of the liberals who had followed him for so long began to revile him. How, they asked, could he stay in the United Nations and defend policies in Angola, in Cuba, in Vietnam, polices they knew were wrong and that he too must have been dissatisfied with. So they joined the politicians who had long since written him off as a man who could not make up his mind, who agonized over his every decision, wavering to one side and then...
...thoughtful man who grappled with the overwhelming issues of this most overwhelming of times. There are epitaphs more ignoble that that pinned upon him by his enemies: that in the age of the trigger-happy and the tough-minded, in the age of Hiroshima and of Cuba, he thought about the issues his people faced, and hesitated, unwilling to make up his mind...
...Soviet ambassador "friendly warning" that it would no longer provide a forum for Communist propaganda. The Algiers correspondent for France's Communist daily L'Humanite, which bitterly denounced the coup, was booted out of the country for "exaggerated" reporting. Police also closed the office of Prensa Latina, Cuba's news and propaganda agency. When Fidel Castro castigated "military despotism and counterrevolution" in Algeria, a Cuban embassy official was called in for a sharp dressing down. Just how, Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika inquired acidly, did Castro take power...
Despite the continuing nervousness about its politics, Latin America is making impressive economic progress. According to a report by the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Latin America, the gross domestic product for the area's 19 nations (excluding Cuba) rose 5.5% to more than $90 billion in 1964, v. a 1.8% increase the year before. The big gains came from Mexico (up 10% chiefly on a construction boom), Venezuela (up 7.6% on record oil exports) and the nascent Central American Common Market, whose five members-Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua -averaged a 7% increase. Tugging...
...raids, police estimated that at least three bands were operating in the area, and reports put their strength at anywhere from 200 to 1,000 men. One of the guerrilla leaders was identified as Luis de la Puente Uceda, 36, a well-known Peruvian troublemaker who studied tactics in Cuba and visited both Russia and Red China...