Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same way Fidel Castro, who pumps Soviet oil through confiscated U.S.-owned refineries, pays in both money and sugar for the 2,500,000 tons of crude he is scheduled to get from Russia yearly. To get into the important Italian market, Moscow signed up with Oil King Enrico Mattei's mammoth state-owned ENI oil monopoly to deliver 12 million tons of oil in 1961-64 in exchange for 240,000 tons of steel pipeline tubing and 50,000 tons of synthetic rubber. The cost works out at about half the normal price for Persian Gulf crude...
Other Side. Aid to nations eager to help themselves is the friendly side of the Administration's new Latin American policy. The other side is the desire to rid the hemisphere of Fidel Castro and the Communist intrusion that he symbolizes. And this job, Kennedy strongly insists, is not just U.S. responsibility but that of all the 21 American nations that are bound by the Rio treaty to combat Communist penetration in the Americas...
...Since Fidel Castro first rode into Havana in triumph two years ago, 45,000 Cubans have fled to the U.S. Of these, 2,300 have arrived by what the U.S. Immigration Service officially describes as "unusual transport"-hijacking yachts, diverting passenger planes at gunpoint or jumping off Cuban vessels transiting the Panama Canal. But even U.S. officialdom was prepared to admit last week that "unusual transport" hardly seemed adequate to cover the case of Jesus Rafael Saavedra...
...Fidel Castro will topple before the end of the year, a Cuban student in exile predicted last night...
Though they still have enough weapons and ammunition, the Escambray rebels are running low on food and clothing. The airdrops-now stepped up to two a week -have become the Escambray's last lifeline. But life is tough for the militia, too. Notoriously inept at logistics, Fidel was barely managing to provide his own men with one meal...