Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beat low over Havana, and Russian-built MIG-19 sweptwing jets sent sonic booms thundering down the capital's seafront Malecon Drive. In every town along the 760-mile length of Cuba, the speechmakers mounted their platforms to trumpet victory to the assembled populace. The first anniversary of Fidel Castro's triumph over the haphazard U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion was at hand, and May Day lay just ahead. It was time to celebrate in Communist Cuba...
...former president of Costa Rica turned last night to his personal experience and political past to give an extraordinary account of events in Cuba just after Fidel Castro acceded to power...
...America would be vital to Cuba's future. He tried to describe "the dangers of our American revolutions... The dictators have kept the demagogues under control, and now lets' hope the demagogues are not the deer eating our political crop...in spite of your very fine leadership. This made Fidel angry...he got the hint...
...trial" of the 1,179 prisoners taken in the Bay of Pigs invasion was over, and Fidel Castro himself was expected to announce swift sentences in a televised speech before his Union of Communist Youth. But Cuba's Prime Minister decided to let the prisoners-and the world-wait awhile. He did not mention the men in Havana's Principe Fortress. Instead he turned his attention to foreign affairs and, in his own peculiar brand of insult, discoursed on the character of two fellow Latin American chiefs of state...
...Carlos Julio Arosemena, who, under pressure of his own military, had just made Ecuador the 15th hemisphere nation to break relations with Cuba.- Of all Latin America's Presidents, Arosemena has been probably the most sympathetic to Castro, and when the Ecuadorian took power last November, Fidel chortled that "it must have hit Washington like a 65-megaton bomb." But now Castro fired his own damp squib: "Arosemena was on some occasions completely intoxicated from Monday to Sunday. The reactionaries took photographs of this señor in the midst of feast and drunken carousals...