Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic and social development of all the countries of the region," and to keep an eye on the strategic situation in the Mideast, Johnson set up a special subcommittee of the National Security Council, patterned after the ExCom machinery installed by John F. Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Summoned back from his post at the Ford Foundation to serve as the group's executive secretary was McGeorge Bundy, a former White House foreign-affairs adviser under Kennedy and Johnson...
...large, high-ceiling conference hall of Caracas' Palacio Blanco was crowded last week with newsmen and television crews. The government had hurriedly called a very unusual press conference. On display were two members of Fidel Castro's Cuban army: Manuel Gil Castellanos, 25, and Pedro Cabrera Torres, 29. Blinking in the glare of klieg lights, the Cubans were escorted into the room, one after the other, were briefly questioned by government information officers, and were then led away to a military prison...
...were part of a twelve-man landing squad-four Cuban military and eight Venezuelans-that had completed terrorist training in Cuba and been sent to link up with the 200 or 300 guerrillas holed up in the Venezuelan Andes. Early last week the squad slid by night over the side of a Cuban sailing bark off the Venezuelan coast near Machurucuto, 70 miles east of Caracas, and started toward shore in two rafts. In the surf, one raft capsized, drowning one of the Cubans. Finding a deserted raft the next day, Venezuelan fishermen alerted the army, which hunted down...
...existence a few weeks ago when an army patrol ran into an artfully concealed ambush in a mountainous area 350 miles southeast of La Paz, lost seven men. A subsequent army sweep turned up a recently deserted training area complete with field hospital, bakery, and other clues of the Cuban presence. Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos ordered a Ranger battalion to make pursuit; so far, the army has killed ten guerrillas and captured ten, including a 26-year-old Frenchman named Jules Regis Debray, who studied guerrilla warfare under Castro and organized the Bolivian band. Last week, armed with...
...climbers, Kendall, like many another U.S. company is actively searching for help. With its employees already working 50-hour weeks to keep production up, Kendall is hiring Italian and Portuguese immigrants and Puerto Ricans, even if they speak no English. Similarly in Miami, stores have begun to hire Cuban refugees who know only Spanish; clerks and customers carry out transactions in sign language...