Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...checks the background of nearly all the Latin American political leaders, you will see, starting from Fidel Castro, that nearly all have been student leaders...
...incredible proportions could overthrow Castro. Here people of both sexes and of every age carry guns and are capable of either murdering the government leaders -or over throwing the government if discontented. We regret that the American people are deprived of the facts of the socialist revolution in Cuba." Fidel Castro could not have said it better, but for his pur poses the propaganda was far more valuable, coming as it did from 58 youth ful, presumably open-minded American "students"* who have been making news for a month on a forbidden junket to Cuba. Last week...
...travel to Cuba, the 58 had to fly expensively roundabout courses to London, Paris, Amsterdam and Prague before winging on to Havana on Czechoslovak Airlines. They were lionized by President Osvaldo Dorticós, Armed Forces Chief Raúl Castro, Communist Boss Blas Roca and, of course, Fidel himself, who skindived with them near the Bay of Pigs and played pingpong with them at Varadero. ("I give up," California Student Eric Johnson gasped. "What you are doing to me is another Bay of Pigs.") They visited shipyards, collective farms and schools, squeezed in glowing television interviews (hoo-rayed Attorney...
...years of power, Fidel Castro has nationalized, "intervened" or otherwise appropriated $1 billion worth of U.S. investments in Cuba. Last week, on the eve of the tenth anniversary celebration of his 26th of July movement, he grabbed about the only thing left to take-aside from the big naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Castro "expropriated" the $1,200,000, seven-story former U.S. embassy building on the Havana waterfront...
...Beard, Fidel's revolutionary sympathies lie with Mao, but he knows better than to bite Nikita's hand, and last week he dutifully endorsed the Moscow line. Still, Red China has not given up hope of converting Castro. Cuba is one of the few places in the world where both Chinese and Russian technicians remain at work. This month Peking happily proclaimed that its experts have helped the Cubans to raise 25,000 Peking ducks...