Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHILE Israel's Moshe Dayan was alerting the world to the presence of two new Soviet-controlled fighter bases near the Suez Canal, U.S. military intelligence analysts last week were growing more and more concerned with evidence of increased Russian activity in Cuba. During the week, the number of surveillance flights by U.S. satellites and U-2 aircraft reached the highest level-at least one a day-since the Cuban missile crisis of October...
Then last May catastrophe struck. One of the worst earthquakes in history annihilated several Peruvian villages and towns, killing 50,000 people and leaving other thousands homeless. Aid poured in from sympathetic countries, among them France, Spain and Yugoslavia. Cuba's Fidel Castro flamboyantly donated a pint of his blood. Last week Pat Nixon flew south for a two-day visit to the disaster areas, the first such foreign mission ever undertaken by a First Lady. Air Force One, which carried her there, was piled high with gifts for the Peruvians. A second plane was even more loaded...
...countries represented at the Vatican today-among them the Moslem United Arab Republic and Communist Cuba-find the papal corridors not only a valuable listening station but a strategic position to catch the ear of the leader of 614 million Roman Catholics. The U.S. has not had a man on the spot since 1950, when Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal representative to the Holy See, retired. Last week, with the arrival of Henry Cabot Lodge in Rome, official relations with the papacy were resumed-at least in part...
...correspondents know their way around as well as Richard Beebe Dudman. Resourceful without being reckless, in 20 years on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he has learned to operate with equal ease in Cuba or Washington, the Middle East or London, Viet Nam or Paris. But no newsman can be at ease on assignment in Cambodia...
...hero is an American painter who takes up antisubmarine duties in Cuba during World War II. The novel, Islands in the Stream, should have a start on this fall's bestseller list. It was written by that old man of the sea Ernest Hemingway. After months of poring over the 20-year-old manuscript, Papa's widow Mary asserts that it is "as good as anything he has ever written...