Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every hope for continued progress, however, runs smack into the hard fact of Cuba. Nikita Khrushchev's thrust into that island turned Fidel Castro from a hero to a puppet in much of Latin America. When Kennedy forced Khrushchev to retrieve his long-range missiles and bombers, respect for the U.S. soared. Yet much of that has been dissipated by the realization that Cuba's potential for troublemaking in the hemisphere is still growing. That threat alone meant that there would be much worth talking about at the Presidents' meeting...
...Leader of the Band. No one can be quite sure where Arosemena stands between left and right. Taking office, he spoke earnestly of his love of democracy, but refused to join other hemisphere nations in condemning Fidel Castro. Not until the military threatened him with the same fate as Velasco Ibarra did he agree to sever relations with Cuba...
First it was gasoline, then meat, butter, eggs, soap, toilet paper, garlic, onions, rice, beans, chicken, fish, coffee, shoes, and even, in this oft-steamy island paradise, beer. "Beer is unnecessary," said Fidel Castro, "in revolutionary Cuba." In their steady slide down the scale of living standards, Cubans heard last week that rationing would henceforth extend to clothing-shirts, trousers, dresses, and even to those snug slacks that Cuban women-and their men-love. Like any good Communist bureaucrat, the Maximum Leader an nounced through his Government Consolidated Products Enterprise that he was doing this so that clothes could...
...make Venezuela's old-line military officers nervous enough about Betancourt's inability to keep order to do the job for them. But Betancourt made peace with his soldiers, and out in the countryside, peasants who elected him President loyally helped the government hunt down the guerrillas. Fidel Castro's Havana radio still cries daily for violent revolution. But the campaign has dwindled to desperate terrorist raids and publicity stunts like the hijacking of the freighter Anzoátegui (see next story...
...Niebuhr, comparing Nazism and Communism, concluded that "Communism is infinitely more dangerous" because it is "a frightful simplification of the Messianic dreams which have haunted Western civilization for ages," sometimes with "frightful results." Foreign Policy Analyst Theodore Draper did a detailed study of Castro's Cuba, decided that "Fidel's ego may give the Communists as much trouble as it has given many others." China Expert Valentin Chu discovered enough evidence of widespread famine in Red China for a 7,500-word article that was reprinted in six languages...