Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fidel Castro, pictured at the right with a kindly looking Harvard dean who departed in 1961, was not here in 1960, though he was in 1959, when he and Dean Bundy got together for this friendly chat...
...What is little realized is the extent to which Latin Americans themselves approve radical approaches, despite such egregious failures as Castro's Cuba." Apparently, what is little realized by TIME are the reasons for this approval. Many of us do not judge Fidel's government merely on its failure to attain the promised sugar-cane crop or on its harsh food-rationing measures. Castro's achievements in education, health and in the fight against poverty are an egregious success in comparison to the achievements of most Latin American governments. Far more Latin Americans than you seem willing...
INFLUENCED by Fidel Castro's successful revolution, Che Guevara went to Bolivia and tried to launch a similar movement from the sparsely populated hinterlands. Too late, Che discovered that the country's peasants were more likely to betray than to befriend guerrilla fighters. Unable to count on aid from the people he was hoping to convert, Che was trapped and later executed by Bolivian soldiers...
...than a kind of contagion or psychological empathy, there is evidence that organizations like the Panthers, in the U.S., and Palestinian guerrillas exchange not only ideas and moral support but also financial backing. There is no lack of spots where guerrillas of several continents can get together. In Cuba, Fidel Castro's Sierra Maestra Guerrillero camps have taught more than 5,000 foreign recruits such techniques as sabotage, bomb making and murder since 1961. Most of Castro's trainees have come from Latin America, but he has had numerous callers from the U.S. Among the American Weathermen visiting Cuba have...
...guard force used the occasion to stage a "sick-out" in support of wage demands). In 1960, the 34 world leaders who showed up for the U.N.'s 15th anniversary included such luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Jawaharlal Nehru and Fidel Castro...