Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each day. Cemetery authorities had received so many requests to lay wreaths at the graveside on Nov. 22 that they closed reservations months ago, granted permission for 21 such ceremonies; among the privileged few were West German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and Juanita Castro, anti-Castro sister of the Cuban dictator. Last week Miss Castro said that her brother was in part responsible for Kennedy's assassination because he "must have influenced" Lee Oswald by constantly calling the President "the illiterate millionaire" and a "murderer...
Cuba, and calling for Cuban-style "socialism" in British Guiana. Yet he insists that "my party is not a Communist party." Is Cheddi himself a Communist? "If you mean to each his own," he says, "then I am a Communist. But if you mean denial of freedom, then I am not." Chance for a Coalition. Cheddi's chief opponent, Negro Leader Forbes Burnham, considers this pure doubletalk. A graduate of London University, Burnham is an able, experienced politician who would strengthen the colony's ties with the U.S. Chances are that Jagan will win the most votes...
...Kennedy been running for President this year, we all would have read this book, for it describes very well the successes and failures of his term. It is a good account of what McGeorge Bundy said to Dean Rusk at the time of the Cuban crisis. But one misses the master hand, combing through the yards of incident and anecdote to separate the significant from the pointless; it is not a book that is terribly useful now. And Sidey's last chapter is far below the level of the earlier ones; the book closes: "He used to gaze beyond...
...group blamed "distorted pictures of the true Cuban situation" for the hard feelings, and unanimously agreed that student trips to Cuba would be an important step in reestablishing ties between the two nations...
...student groups flew to Cuba by way of Prague, Czechoslovakia. The Cuban Student Federation paid all expenses for the trips "in the interest of promoting accurate reporting of the Cuban situation in the United States...