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Word: mambi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baiting has no ceiling or cellar. The daily Combate is currently charging that the Chilean earthquakes were caused by U.S. underground nuclear explosions. Radio Mambi crows over the U-2 episode: "Any day now, His Majesty Caesar Au gustus Eisenhower I may lose his trousers." In a third-grade Havana classroom last week, when the teacher asked what happened on Feb. 15, 1898. a tiny girl shot back the answer: "The United States blew up the Maine so they could intervene in Cuba." The rest of the "correct" answer: "And most of the crew members were Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Marxist Neighbor | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

Raps & a Reply. As always, the U.S. came in for raps. President Eisenhower, cried the government-owned Radio Mambi, was an "aged golf player" who needed a nurse to "wipe away the slobber that drools from his lips." But the U.S. was in good company. Chile's President Jorge Alessandri's democracy has been called "rotten," he himself "a servile satellite of the United States." Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi, said another Mambi broadcast, was "pro-imperialist, a man who rules his country with murderous bayonets," and Mexico's Adolfo López Mateos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Rally Round the Maypole | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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