Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naturalized U.S. citizen, had made an abrupt transformation from the shy Miami hotel waiter who had meekly bought a ticket to Tampa. Suddenly he was the same snarling Cuban secret policeman he had been in pre-Batista days; suddenly he was fulfilling his role as a hotheaded member of Fidel Castro's July 26 Movement. He pointed a big, Luger-type pistol at Pilot William E. Buchanan. 40, and snapped: "Turn this airplane around." Unruffled, Buchanan banked the $3,500,000 ship into a wide turn calculated to alert the radar watch on the ground. "All right, now," Buchanan...
...week's end, Fidel Castro was still cockily unconcerned. He passed the Electra's disposition to the United Nations, claiming that otherwise the U.S. would use the incident as a pretext for invasion. "But let them come if they want to," he said. "If our destiny is to be a bloody one, let them come...
...eighth anniversary of his 26th of July movement, Fidel Castro prepared to take some final formal vows to Communism. His old revolutionary party would be merged with the Cuban Communist Party, and his scribes were writing a new constitution officially proclaiming Cuba a "socialist state." All this was being tied in with an anniversary celebration at which the principal attraction was to be Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin...
...held by 836 owners. Today 65% of the old haciendas have been divided into cooperatives, the rest given to small farmers. But now even in well-reformed Mexico, the need to feed a suddenly ballooning population grows daily-along with a peasant land hunger fanned by the propaganda of Fidel Castro...
...moved into the big landowners' fields after the 1952 revolution, barbecued the livestock and planted only enough crops for their individual families. Land reform failed and now the country, which was once self-sufficient, has to import more than half its food. With the same kind of rush, Fidel Castro grabbed Cuba's richest landholdings, turned most into cooperatively owned ventures. Food production fell immediately, and Castro switched to the Soviet scheme of state-controlled "People's Farms." But the People's Farms are not succeeding either, and fertile Cuba faces growing shortages of every staple...