Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Fidel Castro publicly admitted "a well-founded reason for discontent" developing between Cuba and the Soviet Union, Mr. Mikoyan raced for Havana. By its lack of interest in this discontent, however, the Administration suggests that its ultimate aim is not to undermine Soviet control but simply to crush socialism, autonomous or not, in the Caribbean. It is hard to believe that the government, cherishing an image of monolithic Communism, is actually insensitive to the distinction...
...delegate from Peking's Central Committee was in Sofia, and the purge of the Stalinists was more than he could bear. Heatedly he attacked Bulgarian obedience to Khrushchev's "revisionist" line, defiantly reported Peking's determination to support Fidel Castro in his hour of abandonment by Moscow. The Chinese delegate began his speech to warm applause; he finished to icy silence...
...Fidel Castro magnanimously told U.N. Secretary-General U Thant that he would see that Anderson's body is returned to the U.S. He would do so, Castro said, "on humanitarian grounds...
...Moscow tale, a careful Russian plan was drawn up to ship the missiles to Cuba without secrecy, install them without camouflage. When Kennedy got word, he would make a fuss, presumably demand negotiations, in which the Russians would be able to extract a no-invasion guarantee for their pal Fidel...
There were dutiful cheers from the faithful, but the London Daily Express' Colin Lawson, filing from Havana, reported that "Fidel Castro has taken his biggest knock in popularity since he came down from the hills four years ago." So had his Russian pals. When Lawson first arrived in Cuba a fortnight earlier, newspaper headlines shouted CUBA is NOT ALONE, and front pages were full of photographs of Russian troops on the march. When Khrushchev backed down, the pictures disappeared. "Discreetly, but nevertheless with emphasis." reported Lawson, "many Cubans now show their feelings about Khrushchev. One or two badge-carrying...