Word: fidelity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...troops, entered Moscow's orbit in 1948, and China the following year, after Mao Tse-tung's armies swept across the country. Five years later, North Viet Nam became Communist, after the peasant armies of Ho Chi Minh humiliated the French at Dien Bien Phu. In 1960, Fidel Castro aligned Cuba with the Kremlin. The 1970s saw the emergence of Marxist, pro-Moscow regimes in Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia...
...Afghanistan there were Angola and Ethiopia. The use of Cuban forces to shore up revolutionary regimes in those countries was seen in the West as Soviet intervention in the Third World through surrogates. The Soviets' invasion of Afghanistan with their own troops abruptly changed the situation and challenged Fidel Castro's claim to leadership of the Third World. In the United Nations, nonaligned states attacked the Soviet imperialist thrust, while Cuba's representative lamely endorsed the Soviet action without specifically mentioning Afghanistan. The invasion killed Cuba's chances of winning a much desired seat...
DIED. Celia Sanchez, 57, the zealous Communist who fought alongside Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra during the Cuban Revolution and later became his nearly constant companion and Cuba's most powerful woman; of what the state-run radio called a "painful illness"; in Havana...
...officer in the Spanish Civil War, with Mao Tse-tung's forces resisting Japanese aggression and, with the U.S. Army during World War II, Kriegel returned home and helped engineer the 1948 Communist coup d'etat. He then served as Deputy Minister of Health, medical adviser to Fidel Castro in Cuba, Central Committee member and, in 1968, chairman of the National Front. By then a liberal tied with the independent-minded regime of Alexander Dubcek, Kriegel and his colleagues were arrested by the Russians during the 1968 Soviet invasion and held captive in Moscow. Expelled from the Communist...
...since they had seen how weakness invited aggression and defiance. President Carter, and a lot of others, thought he might modify that idea a bit. His notion that he could reduce our garrisons abroad, cut our defense spending and relax our vigilance over the world's troublemakers, like Fidel Castro, is surely being mocked by today's events. The betting here is that Carter is among those who have changed the most...