Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went for the international Continental Congress of Solidarity with Cuba that planned to convene in Brazil last week. All of Fidel's overseas friends were expected: Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Russian Author Vanda Vasilevskaya, Mexico's ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, British Guiana's Janet Jagan, and a couple hundred more. Castro planned to send a large delegation; placards were printed and street demonstrations planned to take place in São Paulo and Rio. The organizers felt so sure of themselves that they sent a delegation trooping into the office of Foreign...
...Russians weren't having enough trouble playing nursemaid to Fidel Castro, last week one of their freighters was laced with 20-mm. cannon shells as two boatloads of anti-Castro exiles staged a hit-and-run raid on the north coast Cu ban port of Isabela de Sagua. Havana radio reported that wounded Russian sailors were taken to a hospital, and Moscow's Izvestia railed that "the strings of the whole open plot against the heroic people of Cuba lead either to the CIA or the Pentagon." In Miami, two exile organizations-Alpha 66. an action-minded band...
...those late-at-night talkathons in Havana, and Fidel Castro sat toying with a popgun that shot pingpong balls. "We are the only judge of what is right for our defense," he told the visiting reporter. "I said this to Mikoyan when he was sent by Khrushchev." Castro laughed, and added: "If Khrushchev had come himself. I would have punched...
...bearded Cuban talked on for seven hours to Claude Julien. 37. foreign news chief of Paris' influential Le Monde. When Julien published the interview last week, it stirred a missile crisis all its own in Havana. Fidel might have been kidding about wanting to bust Nikita in the snoot, but he obviously felt that his Moscow comrade Khrush had played him for a double sucker last October-once when he planted the missiles in Cuba, and again when he took them out without consulting the bearded Maximum Leader in advance. "We had envisaged the possibility of asking the Soviet...
Said another: "Granted. Fidel says some odd things. But Raul has got his head screwed on right; he's a true friend, and there are others." "Speaking of heads," came the answer, "the other day Fidel said, 'It's time we started using our own heads.' What do you think he meant if not that we've been doing too much of his thinking for him?" A lady schoolteacher cut in: "Some years ago, I was sent to China to give lessons. At the time, we were pouring lots of aid into China...