Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noted that since the Cuba affair, It has been clear that certain signs of relaxation have appeared among Communists and that we no longer face a communist monolithic block. "In the exchange of goods, of men, of ideas between the West and the East many encouraging signs can be registered each day," he said...
PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Henry Jones stars as Secretary of State Hamilton Fish who in 1869 struggled to keep the U.S. out of war with Spain over Cuba...
...daily Hoy, always seemed to turn up close to Castro on the podium at important functions, outranked only by Little Brother Raul, Che Guevara and Bias Roca. In 1962 Rodriguez took over from Fidel as agrarian-reform director and boss of the island's sugar industry-in effect Cuba's economic czar. As Cuba's econ omy continued to fall apart and Castro's relations with Moscow cooled, Rodriguez lost some of his power-over the fishing industry, water resources, and finally the whole sugar industry...
Moscow & Out. In December Castro sent Rodriguez to Moscow to negotiate a new trade pact with the Russians, who are obviously weary of pumping $1 million-a-day worth of aid into Cuba with little effect. The mission was less than successful. Announced last week, the 1965 pact provides for $640 million in two-way trade, a mere 4% increase over 1964 compared with last year's 22% increase. And to help square its overall debt, estimated at $650 million, Cuba will be shipping 2,100,000 tons of sugar to the Soviets, nearly double the 1964 amount...
...would remain in the Cabinet "in charge of directing the study of numerous problems of national economy." The Soviets could not miss the point. For his chief INRA assistant, Fidel passed over Rodriguez' first vice minister and named instead a Fidelista, whose previous experience was as CO of Cuba's air force...