Word: ero
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin America. Cuba's relations with its Russian allies are at their lowest point since the 1962 missile crisis. The economy is a shambles. Perhaps most serious, there is a new mood of frustration abroad in the land. "If the people could just complain," says Jacinto Cabal'ero, a Cuban exile newly arrived in Miami, "it would be a lot easier. But you can't even say the soap is lousy, because the revolution makes the soap, and therefore you are criticizing the revolution, which is forbidden...
...right to speedy trial was articulated as long ago as Magna Carta (1215) and later in the Sixth Amendment (1791) for the pur pose of preventing prolonged detention without trial. Today, most states apply the right to defendants on bail or in jail; one modern purpose is to prevent ero sion of trial evidence. But Klopfer was out of luck in North Carolina, which restricted the right only to defendants in custody...
...Companero Ernesto Guevara," Castro gave only the vaguest hints as to what that status might be. "The enemy has put out many guesses and rumors, sometimes confused, sometimes trying to confuse," said Castro. "Well, in a few days, we are going to read a document by el Compañero Ernesto Guevara that explains his absence during these past months." With that, Castro teased his audience by waving a sheet of paper. "This is the act to which I refer," he said. "Read it! Read it!" pleaded the crowd. "Not now," said Castro...