Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radio in the Miami office of the Bahamas Line shipping company crackled with an emergency message. It came from the captain of the Johnny Express, a slow (12-knot), 1.500-ton freighter returning to Miami after delivering general cargo to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Captain José Villa, a Cuban exile who is now a U.S. citizen, reported that as his ship was passing between the West Caicos Islands and the Inaguas in the Bahamas, a Cuban patrol boat demanded that he submit to a search. When he refused to stop, the Cubans opened fire. Villa was badly hurt...
Cuba was unrepentant. The owners of the freighter are the Babun brothers, members of a wealthy Cuban family that settled in Miami twelve years ago. Radio Havana claimed that the Babuns are front men for the CIA and that last October the ship took part in a machine-gunning raid on the Cuban seaside town of Boca de Samá, in which several people were killed and wounded. Earlier this month the Cubans seized another Babun freighter, the Lyla Express, near Great Inagua. That ship and its crew are still in Cuba...
...Versailles during the early days of the French Revolution in 1789. Last week's demonstration, dubbed "the March of the Empty Pots," was organized by the opposition Christian Democrat and National parties to publicize Chile's food shortages and embarrass Allende on the eve of visiting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's departure. More than 5,000 Chilean women, dressed in simple cotton prints, minis and sleek pantsuits, headed for downtown Santiago, snarling traffic and filling the spring evening air with the sounds of banging pans, patriotic songs and chants of "Chile, si! Cuba...
...ladies' aid. In the fashionable Las Condes district, a caravan of right-wing thugs squealed by Allende's residence, firing epithets, water bombs and-some said-a few shots at the guards outside. Another group was stopped by police before it could get to the Cuban embassy, where Castro was hosting a farewell reception...
While SDS'ers debated the relative merits of the Chinese, Cuban or Vietnamese revolutions, the crisis of an advanced industrial society--a crisis epochs removed from revolutionary upheavals in peasant societies--accelerated in the Nation around them. It was more exciting to glorify Che or Ho or Mao than to do the dirty work of researching and organizing around issues like rank-and-file revolts in trade unions, tenant conditions or day care...