Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...betting is that they will reluctantly go along. The alternative, of course, is to play into the hands of the agitators, who were marching around last week passing out left-wing leaflets calling for the overthrow of "the oligarchic government of Robles" and quoting fiery revolutionary slogans by Fidel Castro...
Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion was alive with masses of Cubans obediently chanting slogans and cheering their bearded leader. It was the sixth anniversary of Fidel Castro's rise to power -presumably a time for triumphant muscle flexing. But this year's military parade was whittled to 30 minutes, instead of an hour, and Castro's speech was almost subdued. "Parades," said he, "are very expensive, and it is natural that in concluding the Year of the Economy we save expenses...
...United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America last week issued an interesting little report on how much economic aid Fidel Castro has been getting from the Soviet Union and his other Red-bloc friends. Between 1959 and 1963, according to ECLA, Cuba got $700 million in grants, credits and other aid. The report did not include military assistance, which comes to almost $1 billion. When that is added in, it is enough to make Cuba the hemisphere's biggest recipient of foreign aid at $23 per capita over the five-year period. By contrast, Chile, which boasts...
Johnson showed similarly sound restraint when Cuba's Fidel Castro cut off the water at Guantanamo. He avoided an unnecessary showdown, and eliminated a potential source of future conflict, simply by ordering the U.S. naval base to develop its own water supply...
...Liberal Businessman." Connor has long been one of the blue-ribbon U.S. businessmen that Washington officials tap for aid and advice. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, he helped collect millions of dollars worth of drugs that went to Fidel Castro as part of the ransom for Cuban prisoners. He is vice chairman of the Business Council and a member of the Committee for Economic Development...