Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inflation, Recession, Iran, Cuba, Unemployment, Taxes, Et cetera, Et cetera. Given the number, gravity and persistence of their country's problems, Americans obviously need occasional relief from national worries so that they can at least try to enjoy their lives as individuals. Yet it has become harder and harder for people to find anything to do or use that does not come with some built-in anxiety. The trouble is that every-where they turn these days, one thing or another is posted with the red flag of danger, if not with the skull and crossbones of mortal horror...
...Spanish Civil War, with Mao Tse-tung's forces resisting Japanese aggression and, with the U.S. Army during World War II, Kriegel returned home and helped engineer the 1948 Communist coup d'etat. He then served as Deputy Minister of Health, medical adviser to Fidel Castro in Cuba, Central Committee member and, in 1968, chairman of the National Front. By then a liberal tied with the independent-minded regime of Alexander Dubcek, Kriegel and his colleagues were arrested by the Russians during the 1968 Soviet invasion and held captive in Moscow. Expelled from the Communist Party within...
Matos said the people of Cuba were promised a democratic revolution and Castro broke that promise. "If Castro had chosen the democratic way, his power would have lasted four, five, perhaps six years and then he would have had to step down to another leader. The temptation was simply too large for someone who loves power," Matos said...
Matos asked the audience to form a committee to work for the release of political prisoners in Cuba. "Young students inspired by love of justice could do much for the men who remain suppressed in the Cuban jails," he said...
...Cuban dissidents and foreigners will not succeed in overthrowing Castro. Only the Cuban youth has that opportunity. Matos said. "Some day the same Cuban youth that is in the army and has the guns at the moment can decide to situate itself with the interests of the people in Cuba and bring down their oppressors," he added