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When President Kennedy embargoed imports from Fidel Castro's Cuba last month, the Tampa cigar makers, who roll 97% of the 693 million Havanas puffed each year in the U.S., faced going out of business. Most of the 4,800 Florida cigar workers and their bosses grudgingly accepted the ban as a necessary means of choking off Castro's dollar supplies. Now that Washington has approved a legal way around the embargo, Tampa cigarmen are wondering out loud whether their industry is being uselessly sacrificed. As explained by the Treasury Department, the embargo is powerless to prevent entry...
...sharp example of Europe's mood came last week when Walt Whitman Rostow, chairman of the State Department's policy planning board, journeyed to Paris to explain Washington's new economic boycott of Fidel Castro's Cuba to the NATO Council-and to urge the U.S.'s allies to impose similar bans on shipments of strategic goods to Havana. Rostow's motives were harshly criticized. Asked the Dutch: Why should we embargo sales of arms to Castro when the U.S. is furnishing Indonesia's Sukarno with guns? Headlined the London Times sarcastically...
...Macmillan and South African Prime Minister Henrik Verwoerd. Its white hope at the moment is George Romney, and when it is not booming him World indulges in head-hunting. Recently it vituperatively attacked Sen. Stuart Symington, as a "Cassandra," and published an old picture of William Arthur Wieland and Fidel Castro captioned, "William Arthur Wieland listens to a friend...
...recent "Editor's Footnote" by de Toledano contained an attack on the Fidel Castro-Jack Paar machine. At that, it was the most intelligent article in the entire issue, which may give some indication of World's devastating incompetence
...Spain), Escalante drifted into the Communist Party in the early 1930s. His talent for words, ideas and persuasion was quickly noted; in 1938 he founded and became the first editor of a Communist daily, Hoy. As executive secretary of the party and a leading formulator of its policies when Fidel Castro entered Havana in 1959, Escalante praised Castro as "nationalist, progressive, democratic" but complained at the time that the bearded rebel's 26th of July movement was "not completely integrated or clearly defined." The failing has now been corrected...