Word: fidell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole generation or two of leftists, mostly intellectuals and mostly New Yorkers, who actually spent some or all of their lives in the thrall of sectarian myth. And maybe, more to the point, a somewhat larger number of"60s types who glorified a bit too strenuously the virtues of Fidel and Ho and Mao Sontag belongs, more or less, in both categories; she was born into the Manhattan neo-Stalinist school of the '30s and '40s (though she was never a supporter) and in the '60s revived her interest in Matters political to take an active part in the antiwar...
some playing Kojak, some Fidel Castro...
...Fidel Castro confiscated Soledad in 1960 and Claflin spent the next years involved in various activities, including his large collection of American Indian artifacts...
...first press reports made it seem plausible: another Bay of Pigs was in the offing. Amid the forests of the Florida Everglades, where Cuban exiles had plotted to oust Fidel Castro, a new counterrevolutionary army had been born. This time the rebels were Nicaraguan expatriates mobilizing to overthrow their country's quasi-Marxist regime...
...comment, which implied that Libya is the first sovereign nation since World War II to plot the assassination of a head of state. For better or for worse, it is well documented that the CIA attempted more than once during the 1960s to eliminate Cuba's Fidel Castro...