Word: fidelity
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Sweet young Wheaton girls, at least 150 of them, strung up Fidel Castro in effigy last night. Taking care not to sell their madras skirts, the lynch mob danced 'round the hanging-tree-Maypole, staying "God Bless America," and other patriotic songs...
...wrote: "The United States has shown the utmost forbearance toward that unfortunate country ever since it fell into the hands of the Castro gang." Said Rio de Janeiro's O Jornal: "This invasion is the beginning of the movement to restore to democracy the Cuban revolution, betrayed by Fidel Castro and his Communist gang." Remarked a high-ranking Venezuelan official: "Kennedy is not crazy or stupid. Every country has the right to give its sympathy to whomever it wants and to help whomever it wishes." Reflecting the thoughts of most of his colleagues, an Indian Cabinet minister said...
...large quantity of arms of American manufacture were captured, including various Sherman heavy tanks. [signed] Fidel Castro Ruz, Commander in Chief...
...were shown on TV, while commentators jabbed jubilant questions at them. The government announced that on May Day, that day sacred to Marxists everywhere, Cuba would celebrate the defeat of the "North American mercenaries" with the greatest parade in history, and the youth would march side by side with Fidel Castro...
...characteristic response to the dictator's dislike was to try to mediate between Batista and his opposition. But his attempts to draw feuding Cuban factions together ended abruptly in 1958, when Batista suspended all civil rights to cope with the rebellion of Fidel Castro. An organization of Miró's friends, largely conservative businessmen and professional men, denounced the Batista regime for "supporting itself by force." The dictator sent some henchmen to arrest Miró. As they were searching his office, he was making his escape to the Argentine embassy, disguised as a priest...