Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could not drive out of the country, he simply arrested and expelled. Last week, in one of his most far-reaching and irrational purges of the clergy to date, Castro jailed 40 Baptist ministers and 13 Baptist laymen, including two Americans: the Rev. Herbert Caudill, 61, a missionary in Cuba for 35 years and head of the 9,000-member Baptist Convention of Western Cuba, and Caudill's son-in-law, the Rev. James David Fite, 31, who has been in Cuba since 1960. They joined seven other Baptist ministers - none of them Americans -jailed in recent weeks...
...American this question: What is the name of a small island that lies south of a large country, has a bearded leader, receives Russian arms, threatens its northern neighbor and whose name begins with C? The answer would undoubtedly be Cuba. Ask the same question of a Turk and he'd say Cyprus [March 26]. We aren't as worried about the Redness of Makarios & Co. as the U.S. is about Castro & Co.; our main worry is that we have thousands of families living in Cyprus under the threat of death. If thousands of Americans were...
...follow. Taking over from Director Allen Dulles, whom President Kennedy dumped after the Bay of Pigs disaster, McCone has steadily and quietly rebuilt confidence in the CIA and its sensitive role. Under his direction, the agency's performance in alerting Washington to the Russian missile buildup in Cuba in the fall of 1962 was flawless. Before the 1963 coup against South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, the CIA correctly predicted the coup, also warned against the internal strife that would follow. Last Sept. 17 McCone flatly predicted that the Red Chinese would explode their first nuclear...
...veterans on the Leafs have won three straight Stanley Cuba. They're used to winning, and they've been saving up what little energy the have left for the play-offs...
Seretse made it clear last week that he intends to walk the tightrope between white and black Africa. "We won't cut off economic relations with any country because of its politics," he explained. "Britain isn't keen on Communism, but she trades with Peking and Cuba. We don't like apartheid, but we will trade with South Africa." How about South Africa's feeling toward such a flagrant violator of apartheid'? Last week, after Seretse's victory, South Africa announced that the travel ban imposed after his marriage to Ruth had been lifted...