Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black; accent, foreign, but not readily classifiable. He had a broken index finger and a sprained ankle as a result of the struggle in the pantry, but his basic condition was good. His fingerprints disclosed no criminal record in any law-enforcement agency. Reddin thought he might be a Cuban or a West Indian. He car ried no identifying papers, but had four $100 bills, a $5 bill, four singles and some change; a car key; a recent David Lawrence column noting that Kennedy, a dove on Viet Nam, was a strong defender of Israel...
...Kennedy campaign--or, indeed, the post-1963 Kennedy career--doesn't lie merely in what it might have been. Grief-stricken Kennedy backers should take some solace in a contribution Kennedy has made to the American political culture which in time may overshadow the importance of the Cuban missile crisis or even Vietnam...
...only omission in what Wicker candidly calls an "imaginative reconstruction" of two tragic presidencies. Author of six published novels, Wicker is too prone to select the facts that intensify his drama. He scarcely mentions Kennedy's exciting effect on the national mood and his great coup in the Cuban missile crisis. Wicker almost totally overlooks at least the possibility that Johnson's war policy may be ultimately vindicated. The result is a persuasive book-but one that ignores the fact that history has a way of redeeming the actions of Presidents whose contemporaries were too quick to call...
National Instrument. The airline literally came out of the underground. Between scheduled flights to European capitals in the early years, its secondhand, U.S.-built C46 Commandos and Skymasters used to be outfitted with Cuban colors and repainted "Near East Airlines" overnight in order to evacuate 140,000 stranded Jews from Arab lands. More recently, during last summer's short but savage war, 60% of El Al crews were mobilized, while the rest moved military cargoes from Europe to Israel. "El Al is not only a national airline," explains President Ben-Ari, a scarred veteran of the 1948 Israeli-Arab...
...Cuban-made cigar