Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kept pro-American Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi on the throne of Iran; the 1954 revolution that overthrew the Communist-dominated government of President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. The CIA has been suspected of participating in the 1967 military coup in Greece, the capture and killing in 1967 of Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia, and the 1970 overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia...
...loyalty ethic is strong with Haig. He went. But not blindly. "You won't come out alive," a friend told him. Haig had been through the Cuban missile crisis, made 13 trips to Viet Nam. "I don't think professional public servants have the luxury to play it safe in time of national crisis," he said...
This more radical kind of dishonesty was apparent at least as early as Ford's first press conference, the one that everyone liked because it symbolized a new presidential openness. A reporter asked whether Ford would extend Nixon's policy of detente as far as overtures toward Cuba--the Cuban government suggested that it would welcome such overtures. Ford indicated that though he, personally, had nothing against accepting the Cuban revolution, there was nothing that he could do about it--at least not yet--because of U.S. loyalty to the Organization of American States, which had voted to expel Cuba...
None of the reporters at the press conference followed the Cuban question up, and I didn't see any commentary on it afterwards. Why wasn't Ford's answer--like the visits to Cuba at about the same time by Senate committee staffers and the contemplated visits by a couple of senators--subject to at least a little criticism in the light of the last ten years' history...
...part of the school's paid staff. Carl Dachton had a similar experience. A gun-shop owner held in contempt for temporarily returning a customer's guns in violation of a court order, he was required to take five white, five black and five Cuban boys on trips to the Everglades "to teach them to know and love the outdoors as you do." Delighted with the task, Dachton says, "Now I'd rather go fishing with kids than with adults...