Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exile campaign against Cuba's Fidel Castro pressed on last week-a war of words, nerves and calculated confusion designed to bedevil and aggravate Cuba's Communists...
...exchange for the $1,000,000 a day he gets from the Red bloc, Fidel Castro barters away Cuba's lifeblood -its sugar crop. That blood is beginning to get thin. Partly because of Hurricane Flora and partly because of pitiful mismanagement, Cuban sugar production this year is estimated at 3,300,000 tons, about half what it was in pre-Castro years. Yet Castro has committed more sugar (at bargain prices he can ill afford) to his Communist partners, until he now owes them more than he produces. Faced with this kind of debacle, Cuba last week...
...these days of Fidel Castro and the Alliance for Progress, the Latin American peasant has taken his place with the Mets fan as one of nature's most familiar and least understood noblemen. Silhouetted against a tropical sunset, there he stereotypically stands, leaning on his hoe and dreaming dreams of land reform and a greater gross national product per capita...
...Fidel Castro's anti-Yanqui rantings are so monotonously predictable that the U.S. often listens with only half an ear. Last week he struck a new and ominous note that commanded full attention. In a violent speech marking the third anniversary of the Bay of Pigs debacle, the Cuban beard demanded that the U.S. stop flying U-2 recon naissance planes over Cuba - or else. "These physical aggressions against our territory are intolerable," cried Castro. "If what they want is to provoke a war, they are going to have it - cost what it may. Let us prepare our surface...
Friend of Fidel. Such is the discontent that feeds Allende's candidacy. A physician who turned to politics, Allende prescribes massive reform for Chile's ills: 1) a strict, centrally planned economy; 2) "authentic" land reform, meaning the expropriation of all large farms; and 3) nationalization of the U.S. copper companies. He terms Castro a "political genius," has Fidel's picture on his office wall and a framed blowup of the Declaration of Havana hanging in the hall outside. He openly calls himself a Marxist. "But I am not a Communist," he says, "and that is very...