Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuba, the mood changed to one of confusion. Kosygin's trip coincided with a sudden series of unusual developments. There was Fidel's planned trip to Santiago this week to help Salvador Allende celebrate his first anniversary as Chile's President. Parked barely a quarter-mile from where Kosygin's Ilyushin-62 set down was a far larger American Airlines 747 commercial jet that had been hijacked to Cuba with 229 passengers during a New York-to-Puerto Rico flight; passengers and hijacker alike were booked into the Havana Libre Hotel (the former Havana Hilton...
...with his Indian headdress. Two days were spent in discussions at the Palace of the Revolution, followed by a 460-mile flight to Santiago de Cuba. The plane arrived two hours late in a driving rainstorm. Nothing more momentous happened. Then had Kosygin come only to bolster Fidel's feelings? The best guess was that the Soviet Premier, who keeps watch over Moscow's foreign economic arrangements while Leonid Brezhnev supervises its broader foreign relations, had stopped by to see how Cuba's economy is holding up in the wake of disappointing sugar harvests. Soviet...
...temporarily out of control or perhaps an actor at the height of his powers. On one memorable occasion in Yugoslavia, he rolled in the dust of a rural roadside in an impromptu wrestling match with Georgy Malenkov. During his 1960 visit to the United Nations, he called ceremoniously on Fidel Castro at his hotel in Harlem, and conducted a flamboyant press conference from the balcony of the Soviet embassy on Park Avenue...
...decision may leave stranded thousands of Cubans who have had to give up their jobs and property to apply for a flight to the U.S. The Cuban government gave no reason for its decision, but there seemed no lack of possible causes. One theory had it that Premier Fidel Castro had got rid of all the opponents he wanted to see depart. Another was that the Soviet Union was displeased with the exodus because it gave Communism a black eye. Cuba might also have been concerned that the airlift was creating a "brain drain" of skilled and professional workers...
...that the Alliance has fallen far short of its own noble goals. "The Alliance raised high hopes that Washington was not prepared to fulfill," says the head of a Peruvian research organization. "Many Latins soon realized that the Alliance was just John Kennedy's crash reaction to Fidel Castro...