Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuba, No! The protest began with what might have been a comic re-creation of the Paris housewives' march on Versailles during the early days of the French Revolution in 1789. Last week's demonstration, dubbed "the March of the Empty Pots," was organized by the opposition Christian Democrat and National parties to publicize Chile's food shortages and embarrass Allende on the eve of visiting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's departure. More than 5,000 Chilean women, dressed in simple cotton prints, minis and sleek pantsuits, headed for downtown Santiago, snarling traffic and filling...
TAXES. Former Senator John Williams, denouncer of Bobby Baker for influence peddling, sponsored a tax-bill amendment that allowed a $2.1 million writeoff for Xanadu, a family estate in Cuba that was confiscated by Castro. Further, say the Raiders, the company and family properties in Delaware are undervalued for tax purposes. Irenée Jr. says that he knows nothing about any contacts made with Senator Williams in the family's behalf. To the other point, Vice President Irving Shapiro, the company's first Jewish director, replies: "If the accusation is that Du Pont is chiseling on existing...
...real Swan song began. A New York company called Gibraltar Steamship Corp.. which owned no steamships, set up shop on the island with a 50,000-watt transmitter. Gibraltar, of course, was a CIA cover, and Radio Swan was soon booming propaganda to Fidel Castro's Cuba, 350 miles away. It called Castro and his lieutenants "pigs with beards" and accused Brother Raul Castro of being "a queer with effeminate friends." In reply, Havana Radio called Swan "a cage of hysterical parrots...
Without Obeisance. On another level, Castro had his own purposes to serve. His trip opened a campaign to break down the diplomatic and economic isolation imposed on Cuba, at U.S. insistence, by the Organization of American States in the early 1960s. Nationalism and anti-Yankee sentiment is so high in Latin America that U.S. officials concede privately that Castro may be able to re-establish Cuba's ties to the region on his own terms-meaning without obeisance to the OAS or to Washington. Peru may soon follow Chile in recognizing Havana, and other countries will certainly follow. Eventually...
...moment, however, the main effect of Castro's trip has been to accentuate the political polarization in the region. Cuba is still considered a menace by many Latin American governments, notably Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Guatemala. They take his Chilean junket as the signal for a general broadening of a Communist wedge in Latin America...