Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Covering Senator George McGovern's visit to Havana two years ago. Reporter Barbara Walters extracted a promise from Fidel Castro: the Cuban leader would give her his first major interview for American television. Thus Castro personally chauffeured Walters around the island over a four-day period last month, and ABC will present the choicest hour of their conversation this Thursday (10 p.m. E.D.T.). But somebody got to Fidel first...
Castro's filmed remarks for Moyers end up as short segments in a remarkable two-hour documentary, The CIA'S Secret Army, to be aired Friday (9 p.m. E.D.T.). The army-more than 600 CIA staff officers and 2,000 Cuban exiles based in Miami-was secretly formed by John F. and Robert Kennedy a few weeks after the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, according to Moyers. Its mission: to destroy the Cuban economy and assassinate Castro. Over the years, while the Miami police, the FBI and the Coast Guard looked the other way, tens of thousands...
...Masked Cuban exiles showing off for a CBS camera an awesome stockpile of weapons in their Miami armory...
...touching confusion of Watergate burglar Rolando Martinez: "There I was, a Cuban, in contact with the Navy, with the Coast Guard, with the FBI, with the CIA, with all the authorities. Suddenly I found myself in jail. Where was the country...
...that preoccupy Mee. He reflects on his Midwestern Catholic boyhood, his adolescent, nearly fatal struggle against polio - an illness that drove him into intellectualism as a kind of self-defense. He describes his career at Harvard and his two marriages, both of which cracked up. It was during the Cuban missile crisis that Mee decided to leave home: "If I was to die, I told myself, I did not wish to die with my first wife." He loved the time for its vivid gaiety: "I thought the '60s were what life was." The decade eventually took on sinister aspects...