Word: fidelity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thant organized a 19-man team to go to Cuba. At his urgent request, the U.S. obligingly lifted its blockade and aerial surveillance. Thant flew to Havana-and ran into a cold climate. Ordinarily, Fidel Castro is one of the world's most assiduous airport greeters. But he did not show up to welcome Thant, and when the two finally did meet, Castro had his gat ostentatiously bolstered on his hip. In his long, rambling talks, Castro sputtered that Khrushchev had sold him down the river. As to the bargain the Russian Premier had made with Kennedy, Castro cried...
...Roosevelt was known throughout the world as a lecturer and writer, one who frequently advocated unpopular causes. She was one of the first prominent white persons to fight for civil rights of Negroes; she headed the unsuccessful attempt to swap tractors for the prisoners seized by Fidel Castro in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion...
...Decisions. Kennedy shattered those illusions. He did it with a series of dramatic decisions that swiftly brought the U.S. to a showdown not with Fidel Castro but with Khrushchev's own Soviet Union. Basic to those decisions were two propositions...
Last August 24 a group of young Cuban exiles in two small motor launches shelled a waterfront hotel in Havana. The Cubans--members of the Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE) with head-quarters in Miami--evoked cries of anguish from Fidel Castro by their abortive bombardment and "embarrassment and annoyance" on the part of the United States government...
Within a year after Castro's rise to power, many DRE leaders began charging that Fidel had betrayed the ideals of the revolution. Castro reciprocated by jailing, shooting, or exiling most of the right-wing element in the Directorate. In late 1960 the disaffection became so widespread the DRE leadership left Cuba and set up exile headquarters in Miami...