Word: windwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interested in Haiti, according to a former special Presidential adviser on Latin American affairs. Adolf A. Berle claims that between 2,500 and 10,000 French-speaking African Communists arrived in Havana early in May with Haiti as a final destination. "Some are said already to have crossed the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti by small boats, infiltrating the Haitian mountains," Mr. Berle wrote in the May 23 Reporter...
...gambling, nightclubbing, and those who only want to be within earshot of a whispering palm. From the shivering north of Manhattan two teams went reconnoitering in the sun-one to the northern islands, from the Bahamas to the Virgins, the other down the stepping stones of the Leeward and Windward Islands to Trinidad. Correspondents Ed Reingold and Kenneth Froslid and Photographer J. Alex Langley did the first, and Rosemary Frank and Carl Mydans the second. They came back talking of their struggles in renting Jeeps, planes, sailboats and motorboats to make their rounds, and insisting on what a hard...
...LEEWARDS & WINDWARDS. South of the Virgins, where the mounting air fare begins to screen out the junior executives, are the Leeward and Windward Islands. Some of these the chic international jet-setters are currently making "In" by their presence-until the inevitable turning point when the un-chic join them in sufficient numbers to drive them somewhere else, and the word again goes round that "Nobody goes there any more, my dear." One island so In that almost no body knows about it is Barbuda, an 18th century slave-breeding ground 15 miles long by about five wide, with...
...intelligence sources within Cuba had insisted that the Soviet Union was equipping its Caribbean satellite with missiles, manned by Russians, that could carry nuclear destruction to the U.S. But the reports were fragmentary and sometimes contradictory. And U.S. reconnaissance planes, photographing Cuba from the Yucatan Channel to the Windward Passage, could detect no such buildup. President Kennedy was not yet persuaded to take decisive action...
...strong crew from the University of Rhode Island threatened the Crimson, in the first race, as its four boats started well and maintained a team lead until the last windward leg of the triangular course. But Lehmann, in first place, managed to slow down the second and third U.R.I. boats, letting Stookey slip into first and giving the Crimson...