Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something new has been added to the exile raids on Fidel Castro's Cuba-efficiency and equipment. Early one morning last week, the Cuban government reported, two unidentified twin-engine bombers appeared in the dark skies over the provincial city of Santa Clara, 186 miles east of Havana. Antiaircraft batteries filled the air with flak, but the planes managed to scatter their load of bombs before flying away...
After defying a State Department travel ban and junketing around Cuba for a month as Fidel Castro's guests, those 58 U.S. "students" ran up against quite a problem: getting home. No nation in the Western hemisphere seemed willing to let them fly in direct from Cuba, and after a trying month of delay they were forced to take a plane to Madrid. There, at last, a few of them seemed to have second thoughts about Castroland. Clinton M. Jencks, 19, a psychology student at San Francisco State College, had his Castro-style beard shaved off and frankly declared...
...full height with a proud rejection of proffered aid -even though his country must have it and sooner or later may have to plead for it. And it makes retreat and compromise so impossible that in Cuba, for example, men who should be natural allies through mutual hatred of Fidel Castro cannot cooperate because one would then become leader of the other...
...Fidel Castro had an unexpected bit of advice for his countrymen: Learn some lessons from the way capitalism ran things in the pre-Castro days. Present-day Cuba, admitted Castro in a speech in Havana, is afflicted with loafing, mismanagement, overcentralization and red tape. "Some people here apparently believe that socialism is to mess up everything and entangle everything and make things impracticable and unworkable." Under capitalism, the owner at least "protected his interests," while the government-appointed manager of an expropriated enterprise "is not disposed to protect the interests of anybody because he has an assured salary...
...Moscow's consternation, the only Communist nation that has not yet spoken out one way or the other in the worldwide "referendum" is Cuba. Despite the $1,000,000 a day that Russia is pouring into his island commune, Fidel Castro is still angry over Khrushchev's withdrawal of Soviet rockets last fall. Trying to make the Soviet leader sweat, Castro is obviously attempting to boost his price for supporting Russia in its struggle with the Chinese. But there is little doubt that Cuba will ultimately sign the treaty, for Castro needs Russia...