Word: hadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fired at 4 a.m. Economist Pazos was fired in a tense, 4 a.m. Cabinet session climaxing months of disagreement. Privately a stern critic from the start of Castro's helter-skelter reforms, Pazos had joined a loose alliance with three other moderates: Minister of Public Works Manuel Ray Rivero...
Fighting growing Red influence, the moderates had been meeting every Thursday with Castro for skull sessions warning that his monstrous agrarian reform was devouring the Cuban economy. A few weeks ago, Pazos, Ray and Perez found that they were being followed by Castro's secret police and guessed that...
Calculated Threats. A few weeks ago, this kind of violence had the approval of the clique of rich bluebloods who control Panama's government and businesses. Over the radio and in newspapers, they deliberately stirred up greater hatred for the U.S. after the Nov. 3 riots. Easily swaying the...
The threats finally brought Livingston Merchant, top U.S. State Department troubleshooter, from Washington. Merchant's answer rocked them back on their heels. He merely reaffirmed Panama's "titular sovereignty" over the zone (as William Howard Taft had done 50 years before) and promised that zone commissaries would adopt...
Winter closed the St. Lawrence Seaway this week, and the score was in on its first season. Through October the new waterway moved 17.4 million tons of cargo, well short of the 25 million ton goal. Part of the reason was bad luck; the U.S. steel strike had cut off...