Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fidel Castro all right, and when he was not on Russia's TV last week, his music was. From every loudspeaker came the raucous, rhythmic tunes of Sloppy Joe's in Havana; no matter that the songs were from Batista's day; to the Slavs, it all sounded pretty much the same. Hotel ballrooms shook with newly discovered mambas; Cuban students with bongo drums did their best to drown out the sound of the 21-gun salute in Red Square...
Charge It. Fidel loved every minute. At an official lunch in the Kremlin, he puffed happily at his cigar, blithely ignoring the unwritten rule against smoking in Khrushchev's presence. He could not miss a visit to the Moscow home of Anastas Mikoyan, his old pal from the October missile crisis in the Caribbean. There was also a duck hunt, a soccer game, and a variety show. And the swans fairly swooned when Fidel went backstage after a performance at the Bolshoi...
...after a leisurely stroll through the wooded grounds of Khrushchev's dacha near Moscow that Nikita took Fidel on a shopping tour at the new Moskva department store. Fidel paused at the leather goods display, asked about a belt, but quickly confessed: "I forgot to bring my money." Cracked Khrushchev, who doles out $1,000,000 a day to keep Cuba's chaotic economy from collapsing entirely: "I can guarantee his credit...
...Fidel Castro suddenly shut down all cable and telephone lines between Havana and the outside world for 24 hours last week and secretly hopped a giant Soviet TUH4 jet for a nonstop trip to Murmansk...
...that picture there are two sides to the conflict in South Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem and the selfstyled National Liberation Front.' Since everybody knows that Diem is a dictator, and a not very benevolent one either, that makes the Front a band of 'freedom fighters,' at least On as Fidel Castro calls them 'Vietmese patriots...