Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign affairs he was the first postwar advocate of nonalignment, urging a "third position" as an alternative to joining the blocs led either by the U.S. or the Soviet Union. He conducted a vociferous anti-U.S. campaign, alleging that there was a "gigantic North American plot" to seize Cuban sugar, Bolivian tin, Chilean copper and Central American bananas. To the dismay of South America's upper classes, Perón encouraged the growth of labor unions all over the continent...
Charles Dascal, 42, fled to Miami from Cuba in 1961 with only a few dollars in his pocket. He and another refugee scraped together $3,000 within a year, went into the electronics business and made a fortune. With six other Cuban Americans, Dascal, a college dropout, founded the Continental National Bank last May to serve the Miami area's roughly 350,000 Cubans (whose annual gross income tops $1 billion). Operating out of two trailers while permanent quarters are being built, the bank, says Chairman Dascal, "will enable the immigrants to build the solid foundation that any minority...
...Traitors (Los Traidores) is the third film released here in the past year that was written, acted, and directed by Latin Americans. Like the Cuban films, Memories of Underdevelopment and Lucia, The Traitors can be expected to present a more integrated, more involved picture of life to the south. Unlike the two others, however, which were directed by independent filmmakers interested as much in cinematography as in politics, this film--a product of the Grupo Cine de la Base, a revolutionary collective of Argentine filmmakers, actors, workers, and students--is unmistakably political in purpose: Educating Argentine workers about the corruption...
Lucia is the second film from revolutionary Cuba to reach Cambridge recently, and that in itself makes it interesting. Pardoning some melodrama, this is a beautiful film about that country's blossoming through the centuries, and the toll taken by history on Cuban women. It will be at the Orson Welles for some time to come...
...prelude to war. U.S. intelligence contends that it has evidence that Moscow began preparations to send three airborne divisions to Egypt when the counterattacking Israelis approached Cairo. The threat of Soviet soldiers fighting in the Middle East caused the U.S. to call its first worldwide alert since the Cuban Missile Crisis...