Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convincing. The rhetoric and stinging satire are still present, but now the generalizations are not quite as sweeping, the attacks and conclusions not quite as unbelievable. In this book, one need not agree whole-heartedly with Arevalo in order to admit that he has some vital points to make. Fidel Castro's rise to power and the Panama Canal crisis are far less shocking when one realizes that Arevalo's arguments have been read widely in Latin America for many years...
...Among Fidel Castro's top lieutenants, none is more outspoken than Che Guevara, the Argentine Marxist who now serves as Cuba's Minister of Industry. Che, in fact, is so painfully frank that Castro has several times told him to soften his speeches. But Che keeps on talking. "We don't make little white ponies here," he says. "We've got little white elephants in Cuba." On Havana TV last week, in a remarkable confession of economic failure, Che paraded the elephants in full view...
...commander in World War II, John D. Bulkeley rescued General Douglas MacArthur from Corregidor and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism." A rear admiral now and C.O. of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Bulkeley, 52, is not the sort to take any guff from Fidel Castro. Last week, when Castro accused the base of using suction pumps to draw off on the sly some 114,000 gallons of Cuban water daily, Bulkeley replied: "Hogwash." Guantanamo was using its own water - the mains from Cuban territory were shut tight. "Castro is calling me a liar," said...
...West's new leaders probe for new foreign-policy approaches, there is always the danger of a misstep. Johnson, for instance, almost certainly overreacted to Fidel Castro's nuisance-value move of cutting off Guantanamo's water supply. He has got to learn that activity, or even action, is not to be equated with wisdom. And he seems to be more thin-skinned than a Texan should be over criticism of his conduct of foreign affairs. Last week, before a group of Internal Revenue agents, he made some petulant off-the-cuff remarks in defense...
...Whatever Fidel Castro may have had in mind with his water war against Guantanamo, the U.S. last week moved to make the Navy base "a little more ready" for any eventuality...