Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Two decades ago, the leader of that revolution, Fidel Ruiz Castro, was under attack at home and abroad. Today Cuban schoolchildren, when asked about their nation's leader, call him "padre," and he is one of the acknowledged, albeit controversial, leaders of the Third World.
"Todo es mejor" ("Everything is better"), says one old man, dismissing my question about life after the revolution with a wave of his knarled hand. For much of this century he tilled the land, and, like many Cubans, was able to work only sporadically. Now he is a member of...
In Latin America, Cuba was for a long time perceived as an exporter of revolution; but suspicions have lessened with the cooling of Castro's interventionist activities in the region and the broadening of economic ties. Many regimes in the Caribbean area - including the governments of Jamaica, Grenada, Guyana...
Our strategic doctrine has relied extraordinarily, perhaps excessively, on our superior strategic [nuclear] power. The Soviet Union has [instead] always depended more on its local and regional superiority. Therefore, even an equivalence in destructive power, even assured destruction for both sides, is a revolution in NATO doctrine as we have...
So much for the dust jacket. Inside the fair was another story. There Western publishers dreamed of reaching millions of new readers with millions of old rubles. Said Robert Baensch, vice president of Harper & Row: "We're planting the seeds, looking for a big future market." But as fast...