Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whether we had the guts we say we have...If we had the guts we say we have, there'd be three main approaches. First, a lot of American companies with Canadian interests only obey American law; for instance, they refused to trade with China, and now with Cuba...we'd stop that pretty damn quick. Then secondly, we would extend public control over these industries...Most of these firms are multinationals, which means that even when they are very efficient, so efficient that there would be no point in nationalizing them, they are making their decisions on the basis...
...experiences are worthwhile. I am a friend of Cuba; I have been friends, for 10 years, with Fidel Castro, I was a friend of comandante Ernesto "Che" Guevara. He gave me the second copy of his book Guerrilla War, the first one was given to Fidel. I was in Cuba when it appeared, and in the dedication, he wrote the following. "To Salvador Allende, who by other means tries to obtain the same ends. If comandante Guevara signed the dedication in this way, it is because he was a man of broad spirit who understood that every nation...
...came as no surprise to Washington that the Chilean junta's overthrow of President Salvador Allende sparked a flurry of angry charges that either the CIA or the White House had somehow engineered the coup. At a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council called by Cuba to protest attacks by Chilean troops on its embassy in Santiago during the coup, Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcón y Quesada charged: "The trail of blood spilled in Chile leads directly to the dark dens of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon...
Although smaller in land area than Cuba, East Germany now produces more than Hitler's mighty prewar Reich. Throughout the '60s, one of the chief tasks of Erich Honecker, now East Germany's No. 1 man (see box), was to boost production to ever greater heights...
Although many, if not most of its future goals were unclear, the junta made unmistakable its determination to change the leftward course of Allende's foreign policy. One of its first acts was to break relations with Cuba, which Allende had recognized soon after his inauguration, in defiance of the Organization of American States ban. A few hours after Allende died, 150 Cubans were hustled to Santiago's Pudahuel airport and put aboard a plane for home. Among them was Allende's daughter Beatriz, who is married to the first secretary of the Cuban embassy...