Word: cubans
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Having dealt with nine U.S. Presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, Gromyko declares that "perhaps the most complex" discussion of his career was with John Kennedy at the White House during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. "Not once in the whole course of the conversation did Kennedy raise the question of the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba," Gromyko asserts. "Consequently, I did not have to answer whether or not there were such weapons in Cuba." Gromyko's favorite President is Roosevelt, but he also expresses admiration for Richard Nixon's studied pragmatism. Gromyko has little to say about...
When a 1975 Senate report on the CIA's assassination attempts on Cuban Premier Fidel Castro cited an unnamed woman as a "close friend" of John F. Kennedy as well as of Mafia Chieftains Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli, Judith Campbell Exner held a press conference in which she denied knowledge of any link between the slain President and the two mobsters...
Blandon dropped another bombshell when he alleged that just before the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada, Noriega received a telephone call from Vice President George Bush, who asked him to warn Cuban Leader Fidel Castro not to interfere with the operation. Noriega has long been friendly with the Cuban dictator and has been accused of giving him U.S. intelligence data. Of Blandon's assertion, Bush said, "Hogwash...
Some of last week's most chilling testimony came from Ramon Milian Rodriguez, who described himself as the former chief financier for the drug cartel. The slim, Cuban-born accountant told how he laundered as much as $200 million a month through Panamanian and overseas banks. A fervent anti- Communist, he said he siphoned funds -- TIME has learned the amount was in the millions -- into secret accounts set up for the Nicaraguan contras. Administration officials have denied knowledge of any such transaction...
When another student tried to help Ramos, the white man kicked him and spat at him, yelling "Don't come around here, get the hell out of here, Cuban bastards!" Morales said...