Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fidel Castro's obsession is absolute mastery over his Red island. When things do not go as he wants them to, the result is uncontrolled fury. Two weeks ago Castro stormed into Cuba's Supreme Court chambers as a "witness" in a trial that he felt had not been handled...
...hidden dispute between Cuba's Communist old guard and Castro's newer crowd. It centered around Marcos Armando Rodriguez, who, although only 26, was a member of the old guard (he started early). At the beginning of Castro's revolution, Rodriguez had little to do with Fidel and was accused of informing against four of Fidel's allies. After living abroad for years, Rodriguez was virtually ordered back to Cuba by Castro's men, placed on trial on the old charges last month. But during the trial, damaging rumors spread that other high party officials...
...Sureme Court and the Justice Department have acted with fine discrimination in the Cuba sugar case. By ruling 8-1 against United States sugar interests that lost property in Cuba, the Court conceded a petty victory to Fidel Castro in order to confirm an important principle of international...
...message seemed clear enough to the New York Times. GUEVARA CALLS U.S. DRIVE ON CUBAN TRADE A FAILURE, read the headline above a story based on a televised interview between Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, Fidel Castro's Minister of Industry, and American Broadcasting Company Reporter Lisa Howard. But the Associated Press, which was also listening, caught quite the opposite pitch. Guevara, the wire service reported to its subscribers all over the world, "concedes that the U.S. economic blockade 'has been a serious drawback' to the island's Communist regime...
With one sweeping decree on Aug. 6, 1960, Fidel Castro expropriated Cuban enterprises that were wholly or largely owned by U.S. citizens. On that very day, in the port of Santa Maria, a ship was being loaded with sugar that had been produced by one of the expropriated companies, Compania Azucarera de Vertientes-Camaguey de Cuba, otherwise known as C.A.V. That white cargo set off on a four-year cruise through the U.S. courts...