Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know why Fidel insists that his is the only country with land reform," added Plank. "We saw it everywhere...
...question of U.S. intervention, which Fidel Castro has of course seized upon, is not really very significant. The fact is that the legal government of the Dominican Republic requested a U.S. show of support, and to have refused, particularly after our declaration opposing the re-establishment of the Trujillo dynasty, would have opened the door to even more violence and bloodshed than was in evidence in the Dominicans' joyful, if tumultuous, farewell to the Trujillos...
...lingering myths about Cuba's Fidel Castro has been that he was really a simple, well-intentioned reformer, who was forced into Communist arms by clumsy, unsympathetic treatment by the U.S. Last week, in a characteristic five-hour monologue over Havana TV, Castro himself set the record straight. He had had to dissemble his radical views earlier, he said, but now he could say: "Ever since college, I have been fundamentally influenced by Marxism. I believe absolutely in Marxism. I always believed Marxism was the correct doctrine. I am Marxist-Leninist and I will be Marxist-Leninist until...
Yells from Castro. Latin American opinion, which recoils from the thought of any Yankee intervention, took this one in stride. Fidel Castro, with designs of his own on the Dominican Republic, claimed that the whole maneuver was merely designed to set a precedent for action against him. He sent delegates to the U.N. Security Council and the Organization of American States to denounce the U.S. intervention and demand that the U.S. forces be withdrawn. At the Security Council he won the approval of Russia's Valerian Zorin but only eloquent silence from Security Council members Ecuador and Chile...
This newspaper display accurately reflected current internal political tension in Cuba. For while Fidel Castro proclaims himself a loyal disciple of Lenin, and dispatches 3,000 Cuban agricultural students to Soviet state farms rather than Chinese communes, Cuban anti-U.S. propaganda sounds more like Peking than Moscow, has never used Khrushchev's slogan of "peaceful coexistence." In any showdown inside the Communist bloc, Peking-style slogans would be no match for Cuba's economic dependence on the Soviet Union. So far, Castro has managed to remain friendly with both Communist titans, but if Khrushchev decides he must...