Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Senator Edward M. Kennedy, before announcing his candidacy last month, held a 2-to-l lead over Carter as the choice for the Democratic presidential nomination. All that has now changed. Riding a wave of patriotic fervor and a degree of unanimity unseen in this country since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, Jimmy Carter has suddenly become, according to the latest polls, the solid choice to be renominated and re-elected to a second term in the White House...
...Castro chose the path which assured him of eternal control in Cuba. That decision was independent of what the U.S. could have or might have done," Matos said. He added that lifting the economic blockade would have helped Castro by improving Cuban economic conditions and thus strengthening the regime...
...added there are many Cuban political prisoners who have been in jail for up to 20 years. "They await, they trust," Matos said. "Their message to those who leave first is "Please remember us,'" he added...
Matos asked the audience to form a committee to work for the release of political prisoners in Cuba. "Young students inspired by love of justice could do much for the men who remain suppressed in the Cuban jails," he said...
...added, however, that Cuban dissidents and foreigners will not succeed in overthrowing Castro. Only the Cuban youth has that opportunity. Matos said. "Some day the same Cuban youth that is in the army and has the guns at the moment can decide to situate itself with the interests of the people in Cuba and bring down their oppressors," he added