Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official indicated that the Soviets have ruled out withdrawing the unit, which they say has been in Cuba since the early 1960s. But he insisted that Carter is determined to avoid a "cosmetic solution." The feeling within the Administration, said the official, was that the "Soviets are not going to do what is satisfactory to resolve the situation." To prepare for that possibility, Carter asked the National Security Council to draw up a list of possible unilateral moves by the U.S. These stop short of military action, which the President has ruled...
...typically eccentric Who fashion, the concerts were staged only in the New York area, partly to plug a tough and raucous film version of Quadrophenia, Townshend's ambitious chronicle of the battles between the mods and the rockers in the back streets and beach resorts of 1960s Britain. Much more, though, the appearance seems like a testing of the waters that turned into a tidal wave. Word is that The Who will be back in the States come December, making a wider swing along the East Coast and through the Midwest, and demonstrating that they can still sing "Hope...
...network made an admirably Salantesque gesture: it abolished the bouncy Henry Mancini theme that introduced Chancellor-Brinkley, substituting a newsy sounding melange of electronic music. The new theme is properly unobtrusive, though not nearly so classy as that grand old snippet of Beethoven's Ninth used in the 1960s. Earlier this month he warned his colleagues...
...intelligence community, finally recovered from its obsession with Cuba of the 1960s, had recently consigned the island to its peripheral vision and focused instead on what seemed more important tasks, like monitoring the tests of new Soviet intercontinental missiles. Then, re-examining evidence that it had been sitting on for a long time, the CIA changed its opinion about the exact nature of Soviet military manpower in Cuba...
...fact, that presence seems to have remained fairly steady since the mid-1960s - as has the U.S. military presence in Cuba, in the form of the large U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo...