Word: latinized
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...much better prepared; or a war limited to the area, also advantageous to the U.S. Given the American geographical position and strength in the area, the Soviets would find it costly to penetrate the blockade imposed by Kennedy or defend their ships. Vladimir Buzykin, head of the Latin American Department of the Foreign Ministry, told me that there was no contingency plan in the event the Cuban operation failed. By establishing the quarantine, Kennedy had presented Khrushchev with a fait accompli instead of the other way around...
Gromyko has little interest in the Third World. He would rarely see Foreign Ministry officials concerned with developing countries and, despite countless invitations, has never visited any black African nation. Except for Cuba, he has never been to a Latin American country. China interests him primarily through the prism of Moscow-Washington-Peking politics. I once had an argument about all this with Vadim Zagladin, deputy to Boris Ponomarev, chief of the Central Committee's International Department. Speaking of Africa, I remarked on the futility of "playing with some pissant little 'liberation' committees that come into being overnight and disappear...
...hope," he mused more seriously, "that Cuba will become a beacon of socialism in Latin America. Castro offers that hope, and the Americans are helping us." He said that instead of establishing normal relations with Cuba, the U.S. was doing all it could to drive Castro to the wall by organizing a campaign against him, stirring up the Latin American countries and imposing an economic blockade on Cuba. "That's stupid," he exclaimed, "and it's a result of the howls of zealous anti-Communists in the U.S. who see red everywhere, though possibly something is only rose-colored...
There won't be much disco or New Wave, but those in attendance at the Cambridge High and Latin School's reunion probably won't complain. According to one of the events organizers, John G. Caulfield '50, the music will be "chronologically suited to the physical condition of the senior members of the group--in other words, slow stuff...
...mood promises to be festive at, the first reunion with all the school's graduating classes. Cambridge High and Latin School was one of two city high schools until 1977 when it merged with Rindge Technical School to form Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Scheduled for March 9, proceeds from the event will go to a Northeastern University scholarship fund for Cambridge residents...