Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made the point that intervention Cuba would have the effect of a conservative dictatorship from the standpoint of the Cuban , would be worse than the Castro . "I suggest that it it crucial that President Kennedy call off all military and quarantine and try to with the admittedly difficult situation ," he concluded...
...Cardona and his Revolutionary Council insisted (as they have for months) that they have no plans for a massive, ramps-down landing on fortress Cuba, but contemplate many small infiltrations from outside and massive sabotage inside, which will in time signal a general uprising by Cubans against the Castro dictatorship. The rebels believe that a third of Castro's much ballyhooed, 200,000-man militia will shoot, one third will head for home, and another third will turn their guns on Castro. "This fight," said Manolo Ray, the underground leader in charge of sabotage, "is a fight of Cubans...
...bullets were made of paper, the U.S. and Cuba would have annihilated each other last week. The Castro dictatorship charged that U.S. planes "violated" Cuban airspace 49 times in a single month, that a U.S. cruiser fired on a Cuban plane three weeks ago, that a rebel flare-up in Oriente province was "fed ideologically, economically and militarily" by the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo. The U.S., in turn, charged that Havana had maltreated 22 imprisoned Americans by failing not only to provide "needed foods and medicines," but by preventing the neutral Swiss from helping the prisoners...
...Cultural Dictatorship. Whatever the answer to that indignant question may be, Angelenos know that Buffie Chandler usually gets her way. She is a director of the San Francisco Opera, lifetime honorary chairman of the Hollywood Bowl, a committee chairman for the Los Angeles Music Center and president of the Southern California Symphony Association. With the aid of the vast influence of the Chandler fortune (oil, ranching, television, insurance), Buffie Chandler has established a near-dictatorship of culture in Southern California. Says one veteran of a Chandler-chaired board: "A meeting with Mrs. Chandler is like a meeting with Mr. Khrushchev...
...their own, the exiles hardly seem strong enough to threaten Castro's well-armed dictatorship. The Varona group has about 2,500 men armed and trained as an invasion force to challenge Castro's 200,000 militia. In Havana last week, Castro hooted at the council's invasion scheme: "Behind that plan there must be something more. There is a more complex plan because they could not rest their hopes on a group of mercenaries...