Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World University Games in Moscow. The crowd went wild with adulation, but there were some off-notes in other events. Russian Jews who cheered Israeli athletes were taunted as "kikes" and roughed up by other Russians, and the American basketball team got caught in a melee started by their Cuban opponents. The spectators, who had been rooting for the Cubans, responded with sportsmanly chants of "Cuba no, Yankees...
...STRUGGLE in Vietnam settles into a tenuous peace, we recognize increasingly that it has touched us all profoundly. The first generation of the radicals of the 1960s links its conversion to the early civil rights movement and the Cuban Revolution, but for those of us who abandoned the old ways in the latter part of the decade, Vietnam has been the crucial experience...
Died. Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, 72, Cuban dictator and twice President between 1933 and his overthrow by Fidel Castro in 1959; of a heart attack; in Guadalmina, Spain. Born into the lower classes, Batista joined the army in 1921 and learned its inner workings by transcribing the political trials held in the regime of Gerardo Machado. In 1933 he seized control of the army and the country in a bloodless -but genuine-"sergeants' revolution." But he soon learned the lavish ways of Latin dictators: gambling and prostitution flourished in Havana while government officials built monumental bank accounts from sugar...
This paper recently expressed understandably grave concerns over the possibility that a Florida Supreme Court ruling, if upheld by the federal court, would require newspapers to give representatives of viewpoints opposing editorial statements equal opportunity to reply. Such concerns would be trivial for the staff of some hypothetical Cuban Crimson publishing under far stricter controls...
Castro has had the support of the Cuban people in what he's done. Yet he had even more support when he still advocated a return to the Constitution of 1940. Overwhelming relief swept over most Cubans when Batista fled; Castro was popular enough to be supported in almost any course...