Word: mir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Returning to his university law professorship, Miró watched as Castro turned Cuba left. He served briefly as Ambassador to Spain, accepted a second appointment (never fulfilled) as Ambassador to the U.S. Like Ray, he stayed on at the university until the Communists took over. Then he returned to exile in Miami-where, almost by instinct, he began to try to conciliate between Ray's M.R.P. and Varona's Frente...
...They Promised." As president of the Revolutionary Council, Miró began to plan
...military campaign that was gathering force. All now say that the timing was wrong, that an invasion should not have been mounted until after a revolutionary mood had been established inside Cuba by a growing wave of sabotage and underground organization. Nevertheless, they went along. The day they elected Miró, Frente members asked him: "Do you think we are going to know the plan?" Miró assured them, "Yes, we will know the plan." One of the Frente members asked Miró, "Do you think the U.S. will back us with troops if necessary?" Said Miró: "Yes, they...
...Miró's Revolutionary Council, only the ambitious Artime agreed with the Pentagon-CIA decision to invade immediately. ("He's my golden boy," a top-level CIA man said.) Artime agreed that something had to be done or morale among the Cubans, chafing under discipline in the Guatemalan camps, would begin to deteriorate. He also agreed that time would only favor Castro, enable him to root his dictatorship even more firmly in Cuban soil. When President Kennedy also agreed on the timing, it was Artime who was permitted to break the news for the new Cuba, while...
...defeat caught up everybody concerned-Artime, the CIA, the Pentagon planners, President Kennedy, Miró and the Revolutionary Council. At the news, Bender and Carr broke down and cried...