Word: castro
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...tapes. It was no wonder they had been kept secret: in them, Khrushchev sheds startling new light on Stalin's complicity in the murder that launched the savage purges of the 1930s; on a secret overture to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime during World War II; and on Fidel Castro's apocalyptic recklessness during the Cuban missile crisis...
...haunted by the knowledge that the Americans could not stomach having Castro's Cuba right next door to them. Sooner or later the U.S. would do something. It had the strength, and it had the means. As they say, might makes right. How were we supposed to strengthen and reinforce Cuba? With diplomatic notes and TASS statements...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua-Eoan, William R. Doerner, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...
Those close brushes with martyrdom gave Castro and Gaddafi not just new incentives for making mischief against the U.S. but also new prestige in the eyes of others who have their own grievances, of which some may even be legitimate. When he plays Goliath, Uncle Sam elicits boos for himself and applause for the would-be Davids of the Third World...
...physical elimination was an objective of U.S. policy. The President's advisers persuaded him to back off. But last week Bush's jaw still tightened and his eyes narrowed when he uttered any sentence that had Saddam's name in it. Like earlier confrontations between Bush's predecessors and Castro or Gaddafi, this one is personal, not just for the President but for much of the U.S. public as well...