Word: havana
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...calling for an ambulance, he ran back to the plane and pounded on its closed door. Three shots pierced the door, two of them striking him in the arm. Security guards ran up, but it was too late. Amid a fusillade of bullets, the jet took off-headed for Havana...
...escape to the wilds of Canada after the robbery and live off the loot for the rest of their lives. It was only when the scheme went awry, apparently, that Tuller thought of hijacking a plane. Since he had been reading Che Guevara and admired the Cuban Revolution, Havana seemed a logical destination. Once aboard the hijacked jet, he harangued the passengers with his political notions. "This fascist Government has got to fall!" he ranted. "These fascists have done nothing but keep the little man down. The only way you can be free is with this!" he shouted, waving...
...Maimonides, Leon Trotsky, Marya Mannes and Norman Sheresky on women's rights. The June ID ran a somewhat watery fantasy by Journalist Warren Rogers on the record of President Robert F. Kennedy as he fights for re-election (Gloria Steinem is in the Government, friendship is restored with Havana and Hanoi, but academic critics led by Henry Kissinger carp nonetheless...
...prosperous Venezuela's middle-of-the-road Christian Democratic government. A rapprochement between Havana and Caracas, which was the victim of a particularly vicious Cuban-sponsored terrorist campaign in the early 1960s, would be a major coup for Cuba. It achieved a minor one last week, when Dudley Thompson, a Jamaican Minister of State, turned up in Havana to discuss trade and, possibly, resumption of airline service between Kingston and Havana...
Publicly at least, Washington clings to its policy of isolation. There is almost no chance that President Nixon, who remembers John Kennedy's 1960 taunts about Republicans permitting a Communist victory "90 miles from our shores," will make any gestures toward Havana before November, at the very earliest. But there are some straws in the wind that suggest that the Administration is not so intransigent in its attitude toward Cuba as it used to be. Washington has long been concerned about the increasingly permanent Soviet presence in Cuba. U.S. diplomats have been discussing the possibility of sending a respected...