Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Angling for a friendly reaction in the U.S., Rebel Raúl Castro's men freed the rest of their U.S. hostages last week "because of the Lebanese situation.'' U.S. Navy helicopters flew to a meadow near the eastern Cuban mountain town of Puriales and on four successive days brought out the eleven marines and 18 sailors kidnaped three weeks ago on a bus outside the Guantánamo naval base. The play for U.S. good will was frank. Said the rebel commander in Puriales: "If the admiral wants to send you into battle in Lebanon...
...world's biggest sugar daddy is a stocky, Venezuela-born Cuban who in light moments proclaims that "sugar is my mistress," and in serious moments insists that "the degree of a people's civilization is related to their sugar consumption-less civilized people use less sugar." The man: Julio Lobo (meaning wolf), 59, who bears the scars of his lifelong love affair with sugar. Entrepreneur Lobo carries a .38 caliber slug imbedded in his skull, put there by a Cuban gangster ostensibly bent on robbery. He has had three heart attacks. Yet he works a 14-hour...
...first newsmen to slip through the lines last week and reach the Cuban mountains where 42 U.S. and Canadian citizens are held captive by Fidel Castro's rebels were a party from TIME and LIFE. At first the rebels met the newsmen with leveled guns, but later they led TIME Correspondent Jay Mallin to the hostages and even gave him peg-cuffed zoot trousers to replace his mud-caked pants. Back in the city of Guantanamo, he stared into gun barrels again-this time with suspicious government soldiers behind them. Before he talked his way past the soldiers...
...dinner. The hostages were shown bomb casings with U.S. markings, were taken to see a dead three-year-old boy 'with a big hole in his head' from a Batista air raid. They were also harangued about the delivery of 300 rocket warheads to the Cuban air force at the Guantánamo base on May 18-the event that touched off the protest kidnapings...
...practice warheads that the U.S. shipped to Cuba's President Batista by mistake in 1957 under the mutual-security pact. They represented no change in the current U.S. embargo on arms to Batista. But the rebels, buffeted by combat and terrorism that have taken at least 3,000 Cuban lives, see the world more and more as either friend or enemy, with no middle ground...