Word: guevaras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others: Castro, Jan. 26, 1959; Che Guevara, Aug. 8, 1960; Exile Leader Jose Miro Cardona, April 28, 1961; and Communist Boss Bias Roca, April...
...from Miami to Washington. Castro offhandedly promised to 1) let any Cuban with relatives in the U.S. depart from the Communist island free and clear after Oct. 10, and 2) make a statement "in a few days" that would clear up the mysterious seven-month disappearance of Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 37, the Argentine-born Marxist who ranks as Cuba's top theoretician, ace guerrilla fighter and longtime No. 2 to Castro himself...
...personality," even coexistence with the U.S.-up to a point. As one U.S. Castrologist says, "Castro will never become the apostle of peaceful coexistence. Yet it does seem clear that he is subject to Soviet pressure and has no choice other than to accept it." The refugees and Che Guevara are two sources of acute embarrassment to Castro, and therefore to Moscow...
Compulsive v. Cool. If the refugees were embarrassing to Castro, the curious case of Che Guevara was doubly so. For that had to do with Cuba's independence and leadership. In the early days of the revolution, Castro and Guevara were virtually inseparable, one the compulsive man of action, the other the cool, brainy tactician. Some wags called the Argentine Guevara a "Gau-cho Marx," but they said it with a sour smile. Che was in the original rebel band in the Sierra Maestra mountains in 1956, the man who mapped Castro's guerrilla tactics against Dictator Fulgencio...
...Guevara was at his most consistent during an incredible three-month tour that started last December with a U.N. appearance and continued on to Algeria, West Africa, Cairo and Peking. The U.N. speech attacking the U.S. and other "imperialist powers" was ultrabelligerent, going so far as to accuse U.S. marines of "sexual exhibitionism" on the perimeter of the Guantanamo naval base. A few days later, on CBS-TV's Face the Nation, Guevara loudly owned up to promoting Communist revolution in Latin America. "When people are fighting for their freedom, it would not be moral...