Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Between Bloods." For the most part, Negroes rejected the call of Black Powermonger Stokely Carmichael to "get your gun." On the evening of King's death, Carmichael was undecided as to what response he should make. Then, intelligence sources said, he received a call from the Cuban press agency Prensa Latina in New York, after which he appeared on Washington streets waving a pistol and urging blacks to arm. "A lot of people who were afraid to pick up guns will now pick up guns," he said later. "They clearly made a mistake when they killed Dr. King...
Even Robert McNamara has an eye on a new New Frontier and, in a statement filmed for TV campaign plugs last week, dropped his normally cool demeanor to give an uncharacteristically effusive appraisal of Bobby's role as a J.F.K. foreign policy adviser, particularly during the Cuban missile crisis. "He remained calm and cool," said the former Defense Secretary, "firm but restrained, never nettled and never rattled, and he demonstrated a most extraordinary combination of energy and courage, compassion and wisdom...
...Humor. Despite Castro's best efforts, however, the gripes continued wherever Cubans gathered. "There is no room in our ranks for complainers or weaklings, for sowers of panic, for grumblers," warned the Cuban Labor Confederation. Castro's revolutionary committee went even further. It called on all Cubans to "stem lack of seriousness, counter-revolutionary rumors and jokes"-a laughable attempt to curb even humor in Castro's ever more puritanical Cuba...
...found your story on "The Julio Incident" [March 8] particularly disheartening. An armed American ship stood by, while three helpless men who sought only freedom were repeatedly overrun by a Cuban vessel in international waters. The result was a defeat, not so much for this nation as for the spirit of common humanity, to which those unfortunate men in the lifeboat were appealing...
Schoenman is no romantic. He dismisses those who have "romanticized" Che Guevara by emphasizing personal bravado, "at the expense of his vision." Che's vision--which Schoenman shares--is that of the continuing revolution. He quotes Che: "The struggle for the Cuban Revolution is the struggle for the extension of the Revolution in Latin American." Schoenman pauses, and then continues, "Elan is only a thing which can mobilize the people...