Word: ransoming
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...Kennedy Administration, which has nudged and guided the ransom payments throughout, made its first direct contribution when the Agriculture Department released 5,000,000 lbs. of dried skim milk from its store of 500 million lbs. for shipment to Castro. Eventually, the dried milk shipments are expected to reach 20 million lbs.-an estimated $5,000,000 worth. The donation of surplus foods to charity for overseas shipment, explained the department, has been a regular practice. Besides, repayment is expected from the Cuban Families Committee-some...
...Troops Remain. While the ransom shipments continued to flow into Cuba, the U.S. and Russia announced in a United Nations declaration that formal negotiations between the two powers on Cuba had been suspended, leaving unresolved U.S. demands for on-site inspection of missile removal and Soviet demands for a no-invasion pledge. Sterling J. Cottrell, a Foreign Service career officer who has headed a policy task force on U.S. operations in Viet Nam, was named coordinator of U.S. policy toward Cuba...
...have never been so disgusted with my country as I am with it over this business of the ransom of the Bay of Pigs prisoners...
Drug manufacturers may quite properly claim millions of dollars in tax credits for their "charity," a loss of revenue that will have to be made up by all the taxpayers. Thus the ransom money is in fact being paid by the American people as a whole, and without their being consulted in the matter...
Which U.S. companies contributed to Castro's ransom? And how much...