Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angola was endangering détente. The officials refused to say what, if anything, Kissinger extracted from the Soviet leader on the Angola situation. Perhaps significantly, however, they said that the U.S. will watch closely in the coming weeks to see if the Soviet leaders exert pressure on Fidel Castro's Cuba to withdraw any of its 10,000 troops, which have helped the M.P.L.A. gain the upper hand against two U.S.-backed factions (see THE WORLD...
...Israel's U.N. Ambassador Chaim Herzog reported last week that approximately a brigade of Cuban troops-usually about 3,000 men-has been with the Syrian army facing Israel on the Golan Heights for two years. This even though Fidel Castro's government last July formally disavowed the export of revolution...
What flushed Mrs. Exner into public view was the Senate Intelligence Committee. As part of its CIA probe, the committee investigated Roselli's and Giancana's other federal connection: their contract with the CIA to assassinate Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro...
Worrying about food, lodging, schools and health leaves slumdwellers little time to think about the future. Surprisingly, many of the poor remain deeply conservative and have not yet been radicalized by leftist rhetoric. Fidel Guzmán, who as a child supported himself on the streets by selling Chiclets, admits that if he were not so cynical he might have become a Communist. As it is, he has no faith in politicians of any persuasion. He feels that only the rich benefit from Mexico's social and economic progress. "Mexico City dehumanizes people," he says...
There are only three Latin American leaders with any sort of audience outside their own country: Fidel Castro, but he has somehow become slightly old-hat, either as a menace or an inspiration; Luis Echeverria of Mexico, presiding over a dynamic entrepreneurial economy while talking a medium-left, aggressively Third World line; and one South American, the impressive Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela. Perez heads one of the only two working democracies in South America (Colombia is the other), and he has oil, 2.4 million bbl. a day. He is not self-righteous about his country's democracy...