Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nuclear politics was also plain last week in the rising clamor against the French holding the tests at all. The Communists, of course, were in full cry against the idea ("a plot to terrorize African peoples into renouncing the struggle for freedom," screamed Moscow Radio), but more important were the protests of nine independent African states meeting in Monrovia, Liberia, who voted unanimously to condemn the experiments. Finally breaking their long silence on their Sahara plans, the French told the African states that the tests would take place in a "desolate region totally uninhabited ... in the dead center...
...Cuban rank fighting Dictator Fulgencio Batista last year in the central Cuban mountains of Las Villas province (in a minor revolt parallel to Castro's Sierra Maestra campaign). Approached by anti-Castro Cubans in March. Morgan went to Castro. On Castro's orders. Morgan joined the plot, brought in some fellow officers and even set up his luxurious Havana home, a prize of war, as the meeting place...
Rich Rebels. When Castro's wild economic reforms hit Cuba's upper class, the plot grew quickly. Armando Caiñas Milanés, head of the National Cattlemen's Association, joined, as did leading businessmen and cashiered Batista army officers. The plotters made Morgan delegate to anti-Castro groups in Miami and Ciudad Trujillo...
...home for a "final briefing." Police poured in the doors. Castro himself stepped out of a back room. "What were you going to be minister of?" he sneered at an ashen-faced Havana contractor. Castro's cops jailed 10,000 Cubans, most of them apparently unconnected with the plot, and uncovered tons of hidden arms...
...that explore everything from spaceship design to missile defenses. He is also moving into a new investment area that combines his lifelong interests in travel, conservation, development of backward areas. In the Virgin Islands. Rockefeller set up the 600-acre Cancel Bay Plantation resort, donated another 5,000-acre plot that became the U.S.'s 29th national park. In Puerto Rico he built the lavish $9,000,000 Dorado Beach Hotel. While Rockefeller thinks that the Caribbean will become a winter Riviera for the Western world, he expects to lose money there, "for the foreseeable present." Usually, Rockefeller invests...