Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin demand was made in a 4000-word joint Soviet-Cuban communique published Thursday as Castro left the Soviet Union for home after an 11-day visit...
Also captured in the Watergate were Bernard Barker, 55, a key liaison between the CIA and the Cuban exiles who participated in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, and Frank Sturgis, 37, another Bay of Pigs operative, who has since built a ripe career as a soldier of fortune. The other men arrested were anti-Castro Cubans: Eugenio Martinez, 49, a Miami real estate broker employed by Barker's firm, and Virgilio Gonzalez, 46, a barber before he fled Castro's Cuba who is now, interestingly enough, a locksmith. It was suspected that two lookouts escaped...
Aside from the occasional Cuban cigar he has bootlegged from Paris, he allows himself few luxuries. He and his third wife Peggy live with their two children in an eight-room, $240 a month, rent-controlled apartment on Broadway (upper Broadway, that is). For a man who describes himself as the most important producer in America, he pays himself a relatively small salary, something in excess of $25,000 a year-little more than petty cash for a David Merrick...
...audience for danger, looking no doubt for the face of black rage. Verwoerd was shot by a mild white man who slipped through unsuspected. John and Robert Kennedy, whose enemies were supposed to be enlisted in a sophisticated right-wing conspiracy, were assassinated by naïfs associated with Cuban and Arab causes. Of all the recent assassinations, in fact, only Martin Luther King's seems to have been committed by an expected enemy...
...links are not merely with Arabs. Fidel Castro's Cuban regime has so far trained more than 5,000 Latin Americans, Europeans, Africans and North Americans in politics and terror. But most contacts are not for the purpose of training and underground activity. Often, says one intelligence expert in Europe, they merely "get together from time to time over a joint to swap experiences and ideas." A diplomat in Beirut who has been keeping watch on international guerrillas there estimates that they number no more than 200 altogether and that "the links are more of a romantic nature than...