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...strikingly handsome young man who suffered all his life from acute attacks of asthma, by all rights he should have ended his life a wealthy doctor ensconced in Buenos Aires, idly composing poetry in his spare time, leading a reflective, unremarkable life. Instead, eight years after he and Fidel Castro had taken Cuba, he would write to his parents...
...angry, and soon he left for Guatemala, to join in the revolution there. It was soon put down by CIA-backed counter-revolutionaries, and Che would barely escape with his skin, to Mexico. His awareness now awakened, the young physician studied political theory there, and met a man named Fidel Castro...
Upon his return from Cuba, Senator Church [Aug. 22] stated that his host Fidel Castro was a man of "dignity" with "a great sense of justice." I would like to ask the Senator how he defines dignity and justice in the case of a man who keeps his people under constant surveillance, has thousands of political prisoners tortured, and sentences countless others to be shot by firing squads merely because they dare to disagree with his policies...
...wing protests against the Latin American leaders, but they were kept under control. Bomb threats emptied the Washington Monument and several downtown buildings, however, and two bombs went off, one at the Soviet Aeroflot offices and another 100 yds from the White House. Anti-Castro Cubans claimed responsibility, though Fidel was not in town (Cuba was excluded from the Organization of American States in 1962, and he was not invited). No one was hurt in the explosions...
...State Terence Todman and Patricia Derian, State's Coordinator for Human Rights, set out on separate South American missions, while State Department Counselor Matthew Nimetz went to Mexico City. Meanwhile, Senator Frank Church, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accepted a longstanding invitation from Premier Fidel Castro to visit Cuba...