Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minor Cabinet post, and became the first F.L.N. dignitary to lead an official mission to Red China. After touring other Communist countries as an ambassador at large, he turned up as a persuasive F.L.N. propagandist in Latin America, and received a VIP welcome from Cuba's Fidel Castro...
...urgency in Che Guevara's pleas for coexistence reflected Cuba's increasing economic troubles. With something less than his usual cockiness. Fidel Castro announced last week that he was imposing meat rationing on the fertile "Pearl of the Antilles." All housewives must register with neighborhood butchers, who will assign them numbers. When meat arrives, the butcher is supposed to post, by turn, the numbers of housewives who may buy one-half pound per family member. The butchers do not know how often they will get deliveries from the government; the housewives do not know when-or if-their...
...waters off Key West were smooth and serene one morning last week as a 38-ft. patrol boat, manned by two of Fidel Castro's navy lieutenants and watchfully escorted by a U.S. Coast Guard cutter, sailed away to Havana. But behind his huge desk in Miami, an advertising-agency president named Erwin G. Harris, 40, was boiling mad. For by order of a state court, that patrol boat was his-even though it had just been swapped away from him by the U.S. Government...
...Fidel Castro explained that it was necessary to "fortify our money" and deal "an annihilating blow to the counterrevolution." The move did make it more difficult for an underground to find funds to operate, but the real blow was to Cuba's people. Having mangled Cuba's economy to the point where the peso, once worth $1, became worth only 18?, Castro now ensured his people's poverty by taking over their cash savings in one swoop...
...Cubans queued up at 3,000 exchange centers, a Havana fruit vendor handed over 12,000 pesos, and beggars showed up with what they had. The thin sheaves of new bills they received were made in Czechoslovakia, pictured Fidel in heroic stance. Then the government announced one more cruel surprise: any cash that had been turned in exceeding 10,000 pesos would be "confiscated." The vast majority of Cubans could now be considered a true proletariat working for what the government decides to pay as wages. Said one Cuban: "It is a typical Communist technique. They keep them poor...