Word: franqui
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Avance was no great loss. Its staff which last January seized the paper from anti-Castro Editor-Publisher Jorge Zayas, was more distinguished for unswerving Fidelity than for journalistic competence; Cuban Press Boss Carlos Franqui was simply heeding the cold voice of economic reason when he decided last week that Avance's circulation of 5,000 (down from 20,000 under Zayas) no longer justified consumption of scarce newsprint...
Rockets for What? Such U.S. actions only seemed to increase the Cuban hysteria. Touring Russia. Carlos Franqui, editor of Castro's Revolución, begged Khrushchev to repeat his promise of Russian rockets to protect Cuba. Said Khrushchev noncommittally: "I want that declaration to be, in effect, symbolic." Insisted Franqui: "Are the rockets ready?" The real question was: Ready for what...