Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Brazil. Despite inflationary troubles, still the strongest Latin American nation and most resistant to propaganda from Cuba. What little admiration Brazilians feel for Castro arises mostly out of the Cuban dictator's role as a fearless tweaker of Uncle Sam's nose-a role that President-elect J...
In the provinces, fires destroyed 2,500 tons of sugar cane and a tobacco-curing house in Pinar del Rio. In mid-island Camagüey province, two trains were derailed by sabotage; Camagüey city itself was darkened for four hours by the bombing of a key power...
The spreading resistance represented no major threat to the Castro regime as yet. But as the opposition began to take organized form, it led Castro, like Batista before him, into the usual dictator's mistake of counterterror. Last week there were reliable reports that a Castro cop, in a...
With growing troubles at home, the Cuban government showed its unease by relaxing for the moment its word war with the U.S. President Osvaldo Dorticós, a reliable echo chamber for Castro, spoke about repairing relations with the U.S. Castro himself struck an unaccustomed note: "Perhaps by temperament many...
Unless Soviet Russia is willing to underwrite a bigger share of Cuba's economy, weapons may be all Castro has before long. Faced with an almost 50% drop in foreign exchange in the past year, the U.S. trade boycott, and the loss of $150 million from the discontinued U.S...