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...backfired. An anti-Sasser commercial featuring the antics of a wind-up mouse called "Flippin Jimmy" designed to highlight the Senator's alleged woffling on the issues, raised doubts as to Beard's seriousness and drew threats of a lawsuit from Sasser. A subsequent advertisement featured an actor portraying Fidel Castro lighting a cigar with a $100 bill and saying. "Thanks, Senor Sasser," referring to the Democrat's vote for a bill to extend U.S. aid to international development banks. Later to draw attention to Sasser's vote against a Constitutional amendment banning abortion, the Beard campaign financed a tour...
Rome, Barcelona, Paris and Caracas, ending up in Cuba, where he befriended Fidel Castro and worked for his press agency...
From 1977 to 1979 Smith served as director of the State Department's Office of Cuban Affairs; he then went to Havana to head the U.S. interests section before resigning last month. While acknowledging that no U.S. Administration has ever devised an effective policy for dealing with Fidel Castro, Smith especially blasts the rigid, confrontational approach of the Reagan White House. From the start, Smith contends, the Reaganauts were obsessed with forcing Cuba to stop meddling in Central America and, in particular, to quit supplying arms to the guerrillas in El Salvador. But U.S. attempts to pressure Castro backfired...
...History Professor Stephan A. Thernstrom, then a first-year instructor and a Hughes organizer, recalls that Tocsin sympathizers "had a horrible sinking feeling everyone would rally around the flag and move us closer to war." The Crimson agreed, editorializing that Kennedy should have dealt more directly with Cuban leader Fidel Castro rather than flying "on wings of war into an ambiguous 'quarantine'" against the Soviets. "I really thought at the time that this was part of Kennedy's macho-jocko routine to prove American resolve," says Thernstrom. But he adds that his political views were not widely held on campus...
...Third World bodies as the Organization of African Unity and the nonaligned movement. He is, therefore, pre-eminent in the demonology of the Reagan Administration. In a number of offices at the CIA, Gaddafi's picture hangs next to those of Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and Cuban President Fidel Castro in a kind of unholy trinity. An agency official not long ago called Gaddafi "the first among equals, our international public enemy No. 1." The Reagan Administration blames Gaddafi for sponsoring international terrorism (he says he supports only legitimate liberation movements), and even for dispatching hit squads to assassinate...