Word: dorticose
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Not since May Day had he given a major speech. He had not taken visible leadership of last month's Guantánamo crisis; admittedly, he had signed the communiqué charging that the U.S. was planning an invasion, but he left it to his brother Raul to preside...
What did it all mean? One theory was that Fidel was ailing; another that he was undergoing shock treatments. Still another, more widely subscribed to, was that Moscow had finally decided to put Fidel down and replace him with a less mercurial leader such as Dorticos. Were the Castrologists really...
And like Castro, everybody else in Cuba is getting dull. Younger Brother Raul, Cuba's armed forces chief, who used to give a pretty noisy speech, now works in the background as quietly as any Russian general. President Osvaldo Dorticos sometimes does not even bother to accept the credentials...
"I surprised you," chuckled the fifth passenger to step from the Russian TU-114 turboprop at the end of its regular Moscow-Havana run. He certainly did. As secretly as he left, Fidel Castro had finally returned from his five-week visit to the Soviet Union. Still grinning, he went...
His image was shadowed by his intention to visit Fidel Castro in Cuba just two days after meeting President Kennedy in the White House. One of his first acts in Manhattan was to call on Cuba's President Osvaldo Dorticos, who next day denounced the U.S. in violent terms...