Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mutual Hate. Touring Czechoslovakia, Raúl Castro, brother of Fidel and head of Cuba's armed forces, showed that Communism's affection for Cuba was mutual. On a visit to a dam near Pisek, in western Czechoslovakia, he met a troupe of junketing Red Chinese and North Korean military brass, chatted about the common struggle of the Chinese, Korean and Cuban peoples against "the American aggressors." A few weeks before he set out on his trip, Raúl Castro remarked to intimates in Havana: "My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York...
...last week junked its policy of "patience and forbearance" toward Fidel Castro's Cuba. Its patience was long since gone; its forbearance no longer seemed productive. Rather than wise restraint, it was beginning to look like mere helplessness and timidity...
Tempted by visions of bartering sugar for oil, and taking the advice of the Communist who is his chief economic brain, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, Fidel Castro last week turned to Russia for the oil to run Cuba. In doing so, he seized a $20 million Texaco refinery and a $35 million Jersey Standard (Esso) refinery, both U.S.-owned, and a $20 million refinery of Canadian Shell...
...almost half of Cuba-13,246,800 acres out of its 28 million acres. Last week 605,333 head of confiscated INRA cattle grazed on 2,091,600 acres of confiscated pasturelands. Operating from a ig-story Havana headquarters, complete with piped music and two offices for INRA President Fidel Castro, INRA is running 1,392 collective farms, 2,000 "people's stores," 1,215 new schools, 15 fishing coops, 80 sewing schools, 1,000 "alphabetization centers" for adult illiterates. It even collects the tolls on the auto tunnel under Havana...
...Picture. The Popular Socialist (Communist) Party, echoed by Che Guevara, sees the revolution as only "the first step toward the inevitable goal of socialism." But knowing that the step is a big one, party headquarters displays not a portrait of Lenin but one of Fidel Castro. Could Castro ever turn on his ardent backers? "That could never happen," smiles Communist Party Boss Juan Marinello, basking in the thought that establishment of relations with Russia and Czechoslovakia will probably be followed by Cuban recognition of Red China...