Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election in 1962, Javits was opposed by James B. Donovan, the Kennedy candidate who had made the headlines as chief negotiator of the deal by which Fidel Castro traded 9,700 Bay of Pigs prisoners for $53 million in drugs and foods. Javits won by 980,000 votes?again, he was the biggest winner anywhere in the U.S.?and became the first Republican since Calvin Coolidge to carry New York City...
...next problem was how to get to Puerto Rico. There is no airline service between Havana and San Juan, and the U.S. refused to let Fidel fly his athletes in aboard Cuban Ilyushins. Furthermore, warned Washington, any Cuban ship trying to land them in Puerto Rico would be seized on the spot. The Cubans finally made the scene aboard a Puerto Rican tugboat, which ferried them ashore from a Cuban freighter that dropped anchor just outside the three-mile limit. Their reception was warm indeed. Cops swarmed all over them. Shock squads of exiles followed them everywhere, trying to persuade...
...people who specialize in assessing the actions of Fidel Castro are quite aptly called Castrologists, for on the basis of their past record their chief tool seems to be stargazing. Last week they looked up from their horoscopes again to proclaim that Fidel's future looked dim. The reason: for the past seven weeks he had not been acting as they thought he should be acting...
...Guantánamo crisis; admittedly, he had signed the communiqué charging that the U.S. was planning an invasion, but he left it to his brother Raul to preside at the funeral of a Cuban soldier killed in a shooting in cident on the Guantanamo border. And where was Fidel, an inveterate hurricane chaser, when Hurricane Alma hit the island? There was no evidence that he was even near the disaster areas (nor was there evidence that he was not). Furthermore, it was President Osvaldo Dorticós, not Castro, who delivered the last foreign-policy address, and Dorticos again...
What did it all mean? One theory was that Fidel was ailing; another that he was undergoing shock treatments. Still another, more widely subscribed to, was that Moscow had finally decided to put Fidel down and replace him with a less mercurial leader such as Dorticos. Were the Castrologists really on to something this time? Perhaps they were, but only astrologists would know...