Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aerial hijackers who had been caught. Hubbard found his subjects sexually passive: "I've yet to meet a skyjacker who ever seduced a woman." Although hijackers are often folk heroes of the New Left, they are, if anything, right-wingers, and those who want to go to Cuba may aim "to assassinate Castro, not to join...
...victim may rather like being hijacked. Passengers may sympathize with the skyjacker because "we are all earthbound and resentful of that fact." On the basis of interviews with skyjacking victims, Hubbard believes that they often enjoy seeing the criminal dethrone the pilot from power. They may be curious about Cuba, if that is their new destination, and even hope for sexual adventure there. Besides, they look forward to becoming celebrities...
Question: Earlier you stated the need for revolutionaries in Quebec and Canada to make contact with other movements around the world, and yet Cuba has suddenly cut off all contact with Latin America and other revolutionary movements. Do you have any ideas why this...
...when they met in Vienna in 1961-a miscalculation that led directly to the Cuban missile crisis, which brought the world to the verge of nuclear war. Khrushchev proclaimed the confrontation a triumph because it ended in an assurance from Kennedy that the U.S. would not attempt to invade Cuba again, but he was forced to admit that many people thought he had "turned coward and backed down...
...decision, but there seemed no lack of possible causes. One theory had it that Premier Fidel Castro had got rid of all the opponents he wanted to see depart. Another was that the Soviet Union was displeased with the exodus because it gave Communism a black eye. Cuba might also have been concerned that the airlift was creating a "brain drain" of skilled and professional workers. But a more immediately compelling theory centered around the fact that four Cuban athletes had defected during the recent Pan-American Games in Cali, Colombia, a defection that Castro charged had been instigated...