Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuba, humble peasants marveled at the bountiful leader, Fidel Castro, who is going to give them land, and the workers in the cities cheered the arbitrary rent cut that Castro decreed. But as Castro got ready to go to the U.S. this week, the middle and upper classes, who financed his revolt to restore an elected democracy, uneasily realized that Castro plans a long overhauling of Cuban society before anyone goes to the polls. See THE HEMISPHERE, The First 100 Days...
...Fidel Castro arrives in Washington this week invited there by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He has dates to confer with Vice President Nixon and to lunch with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter, will go on to see the press in New York and make a speech before the Harvard Law School Forum. A compulsive explainer. Castro apparently expects to win U.S. sympathy by candor and eloquence-despite his growing record of blaming Cuba's troubles on that "bad neighbor,'' the U.S., and of choosing neutralism as Cuba's cold-war course...
WASHINGTON, April 17--Fidel Castro spoke out strongly today against dictators and in favor of a free press...
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro will address an expected crowd of 6,000 from Dillon Field House Balcony on Saturday, April 25. Fear for Castro's safety caused the Law School Forum, sponsor of the speech, to decide against using Harvard Stadium...
MIAMI, Fla, April 16--Taking a cue from Fidel Castro's revolutionary script, four of his enemies hijacked a Cuban domestic airliner today and forced its pilot to fly them to Miami in search of political asylum...