Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...force "poses no threat to the U.S.," Vance now assessed the situation in more ominous terms. In a solemn voice he told reporters, "We regard this as a very serious matter, affecting our relations with the Soviet Union. The presence of this [combat] unit runs counter to long held American policies ... I will not be satisfied with maintenance of the status...
Shortly after President Carter took office in January 1977, he canceled the SR-71 flights over Cuba as part of a general policy of cutting back intelligence operations. The flights were not resumed until November 1978, when American intelligence began to fear that the Soviet MiG-23s stationed in Cuba might be capable of carrying nuclear weapons. But satellite and SR-71 photos did not clear up the matter. It took HUMINT to do the job. An agent with access to the MiG airfield was sent in to take a snapshot of a friend who just happened to be standing...
...shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States requiring a full retaliatory response on the Soviet Union." The next day, the Organization of American States gave its unanimous backing to the U.S. position. To many, the world appeared on the brink...
...Kennedy and Nixon understandings with the Soviet Union did not resolve a more general problem. Many Americans, believing devoutly in the Monroe Doctrine's repudiation of non-American military bases in the Western Hemisphere, have never accepted the idea of the Soviet Union having any military role in Cuba whatsoever. But the Monroe Doctrine's applicability today is essentially symbolic...
Even as Washington worried about that Soviet brigade in Cuba, President Fidel Castro was luxuriating last week in an ego-boosting extravaganza. Basking in a tropical sun and bedecked with banners carrying anti-imperialist and anti-American slogans, Havana radiated a fiesta-like atmosphere as Presidents, Prime Ministers, dictators and Kings of 92 states flocked into the Cuban capital for the opening of the weeklong sixth summit of nonaligned nations. As host of the conference, Castro was seen and photographed with a wide variety of Third World leaders, ranging from Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, 87 - the last surviving...