Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What struck me most about Cuban socialism," says Schecter, "is that it seems informal compared with China and the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Despite strong totalitarian control, the presence of police and armed forces in the streets is not as apparent as in other socialist countries." Cuban authorities went out of their way to smooth the visit of Schecter and his colleagues, allowing the newsmen to fly in directly from Miami despite the absence of U.S.-Cuban diplomatic relations and providing them with special telex facilities. The citizen on the street proved equally genial. "On a walking tour...
...reciprocate, Schecter presented Castro with a copy of Khrushchev Remembers, the Soviet leader's memoirs in which the Cuban Premier figures prominently, but failed-not for lack of trying -to lure Sports Buff Castro into a basketball game. "I had the feeling," concluded Schecter on returning home, "not so much of the heavy hand of socialism as of meeting a family member who had rebelled and wanted to rejoin the clan with respect and not be reminded of his or our mistakes...
...that Hunt may have been fibbing to his superiors at the White House; when Martinez complained that the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist yielded nothing, Hunt replied, "Yes, I know, but they don't know it." Hunt may also have doublecrossed his Cuban underlings. Barker complains that Hunt persuaded the pair to remain silent before the grand jury, and then extracted a grant of immunity for himself by agreeing to come clean. Says Barker: "Hunt will have to live with his own problem. I feel sorry...
...Russell Hornsby, 49, backed a decision to fire the new business manager of his electrical-contracting firm, police in Orlando, Fla., heard from an informer that the dismissed executive, John Robert Sapp, 38, was scouting the area for someone to bump off Hornsby. Detective Ben Hernandez, posing as a Cuban hit man named Frank, volunteered for the job. According to police, Hernandez was hired and given a down payment. Later he reported to Sapp that Hornsby had been duly killed and demanded the rest of his $5,000 payoff. To authenticate the deal, police swarmed around Hornsby's suburban...
Upon the conclusion of his Cuban visit, after meeting with Castro, Javits said that it was obvious to him that the Premier wanted an improvement in U.S.-Cuba relations. It remains to be seen whether the American government will come to its senses and take steps in this direction...