Word: roa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down. Speaking with unusual intensity, Stevenson sought to accent the positive, reassuring Latin America in particular that the U.S. had no intention of reviving Yankee imperialism, but was acting in the interests of freedom after extreme, prolonged, unceasing provocation. He ridiculed the shrill contention of Raül Roa, Castro's liverish little ambassador, that the invaders were scum, hired mercenaries...
...Many of them are Dr. Roa's friends and associates of long standing," said Stevenson. "They make a rather impressive list: the first Provisional President of the Revolutionary Government, Dr. Manuel Urrutia; the first Prime Minister, Dr. José Miró Cardona; the first President of the Supreme Court, Dr. Emilio Menéndez." Stevenson read the full roll call: "Nearly two-thirds of Castro's first Cabinet, rebel leaders, labor leaders, editors and commentators, and even such confidants as Juan Orta, the head of the Prime Minister's own office...
...Cuban revolution," Stevenson went on. "But in the course of 1959, Castro began the anti-American, anti-United States campaign that in recent months has risen to so strident a crescendo." Stevenson concentrated his appeal on the Latin American diplomats present: "We must not forget that Dr. Roa has described President Frondizi of Argentina in terms so revolting that I will not repeat them.* The official Cuban radio has poured shrill invectives on governments and leaders throughout the hemisphere, and the more democratic and progressive the government, the more the regime recognizes it as a mortal enemy...
Castro accused the U.S. of staging the attack, raged that it was the prelude to direct, frontal invasion by "North American imperialists." Raúl Roa, Castro's U.N. delegate, popped up to demand that the General Assembly consider the anti-U.S. charges immediately, was eagerly backed by the Soviet Union. Adlai Stevenson, for the U.S., denied all, and cited the Cuban markings on the planes...
Guns from the North. While Vientiane danced and paraded, most of northern Laos was in the hands of the Communist Pathet Lao rebels (see map). Lean, well-conditioned guerrilla bands slipped like shadows through the green jungle, re peatedly outflanking the roa'dbound Laotian army. The rebels were backed up by Soviet artillery and munitions fed into the northern Plaine des Jarres by airlift and truck convoy from Hanoi, capital of Communist North Viet Nam. Hanoi also supplied gun crews, and each Pathet Lao company was stiffened with a cadre of from 10 to 15 North Vietnamese...