Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin America, the name is so common that no one blinks when U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Raúl Castro, 50, introduces himself. But in the U.S., the handle can be a headache, particularly in places like Miami, hotbed of militant Cuban exiles, where the name of Fidel's kid brother and Defense Minister is anathema. "I was in Miami not long ago," the Mexican-born U.S. career diplomat told the Nucleus Club in Phoenix, "and 20 minutes after I checked into a hotel, the word got around that Raúl Castro was in town...
...critics have whipped up a bewildering barrage of other doubts-the location of the bullet hole in Kennedy's clothes, Oswald's relations with Cuban Communists, the fact that the autopsy X rays and photographs were not released (in the case of the photos, at the Kennedy family's request), Jack Ruby's friendship with the Dallas cops. There are plenty of explanations available to clear up any significant suspicions, but the most compelling refutation of most of the critics' charges is that any evidence-tampering of the sort they suspect would have required...
This conversation is the newsiest part of Salinger's book. He also touches on the Cuban missile crisis by printing portions of the reports sent to the President by John Scali, the newscaster who had been chosen by the Soviets as an intermediary in the early stages of the negotiation. "I participated in the decision to ask Scali to hold his silence on negotiations," Salinger writes...
...exodus. The U.S. was to pay Cubana Airlines some $250,000 to fly the Americans and their 1,700 dependents to Mexico City, where the refugees could be transferred to U.S.-bound planes. The State Department even announced that one planeload was on its way. Not so, replied the Cuban government. The plane, it announced, had turned back because of "engine trouble...
...which makes Minnesota's Tony Oliva, 25, just about the luckiest hitter in baseball-and close to the best. In 1964, as a baby-faced Cuban farm lad who spoke practically no English ("Tony talks so bad," cracked Fellow Cuban Zoilo Versalles, the Twins' shortstop, "that he even says 'ain't' in Spanish"). Outfielder Oliva hit 32 home runs and batted .323-thus becoming the first rookie ever to win the American League's batting championship. Last year, playing with a bad knee and a painfully bruised hand, he drove in 98 runs...