Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then there was the curious case in 1960 of the gangster's girl friend. Under a deal that was never fully explained, the CIA got information about Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba from Sam ("Momo") Giancana, then boss of the Chicago Mafia. Memo's girl friend was Phyllis McGuire of the singing sisters, and he wanted to chase off a rival, a well-known comedian. Sam's strategy was to convince Phyllis that the rival was a philanderer. The co median returned to his Las Vegas hotel suite one night to discover two private detectives...
veto last March of a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a draft treaty guaranteeing Panama's claim to sovereignty over the Canal Zone. They are miffed, and also a bit puzzled over Nixon's inflexible attitude toward Cuba at a time when the U.S. is actively wooing China and the Soviet Union...
...give in to the terrorists' demands cut against the grain of President Nixon's no-dealing-with-terrorists policy, enunciated in 1971 in connection with the kidnaping of four U.S. airmen by leftist terrorists in Turkey. To Mexican authorities, the release of 30 imprisoned terrorists to Cuba meant, in all likelihood, that the revolutionaries would soon be back in action in the country...
...demands. "Mexico will accede," he said, "because the essential thing is to protect the U.S. consul general's life." (Only six months before, five Mexican guerrillas were released from prison after their comrades hijacked a domestic Mexicana airline flight and demanded that all be allowed to fly to Cuba.) Besides, as a Mexican official put it, "allowing the terrorists to kill the consul general would have been tragic for U.S.-Mexican relations. It would have cost Mexico dearly in American investment and in our $1 billion-a-year U.S. tourist trade...
Demand. The deal was made: the 30 prisoners flown to Havana, the proclamation duly printed, the police leashed. Cuba's chargé d'affaires appeared, as specified, on television to report that the freed rebels had safely arrived in Havana. But then Leonhardy's captors made an additional demand for his freedom: $80,000 in ransom money. A day later, the ransom was paid; nine hours afterward, Leonhardy was found, exhausted and unshaven, in a Guadalajara street. He called his 76-hour captivity a "terrible ordeal. I prayed a lot. I didn't know when they...