Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solidly paved, closely guarded airstrip. So out of place did the strip seem amid the sparsely settled cattle ranches and banana plantations that Guatemalans have been whispering about it for months. Could it be the base for a cooperative U.S.-Guatemalan-Cuban-exile airborne military operation against Fidel Castro? Fortnight ago, poking around the country. Los Angeles Mirror Aviation Editor Don Dwiggins heard about the strip and broke a story reporting that it had been built with U.S. funds in a mysterious "crash" program and was capable of handling jet fighters...
...season's hit song in Havana, sung to the tune of Jingle Bells: "Con Fidel, con Fidel, todos con Fidel...
...building's entrance was a painting of a peasant couple watching the newborn babe in the manger. Overhead, a light bulb screwed into his forehead, beamed the face of José Marti, Cuba's national hero. And out of the East strode the three Wise Men-Fidel Castro, Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara and Army Chief Juan Almeida. The symbolism, in a way, was appropriate. On Christmas week,* the East was where Cuba found itself tied by every device of economics, technology and culture at the dictatorship's disposal...
...Fidel Castro's gift last week was another shrill speech, in which he threatened the entire world with economic aggression if the U.S. does not buy Cuban sugar. If other suppliers fill the gap in the U.S., cried Castro, he will wreck the trade by dumping sugar. If he meant what he said, he would also wreck the economy of Cuba, the world's largest exporter...
...When Fidel Castro took power in Cuba on New Year's Day 1959, 16 newspapers were published daily in Havana. As Castro's intolerance of opposition mounted, the number rapidly shrank to eight. Last week two more Havana papers-the dailies Avance and Información-abruptly disappeared...