Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carefulness. With everyone mindful of the troublemaking potential of Castro's Communist Cuba, the security arrangements were indeed remarkable. Some 50 U.S. Secret Service men were there; a U.S. Army company moved in from the Canal Zone; the carrier Wasp, its jet fighters just three minutes away, cruised offshore. Some of the food for Kennedy's private meals was flown into San Jose from the Wasp. Preparatory to it all, the U.S. had requested and received from Costa Rica the right to screen all visa requests for entry into the little country. Among those who applied and were...
Every hope for continued progress, however, runs smack into the hard fact of Cuba. Nikita Khrushchev's thrust into that island turned Fidel Castro from a hero to a puppet in much of Latin America. When Kennedy forced Khrushchev to retrieve his long-range missiles and bombers, respect for the U.S. soared. Yet much of that has been dissipated by the realization that Cuba's potential for troublemaking in the hemisphere is still growing. That threat alone meant that there would be much worth talking about at the Presidents' meeting...
Think of the Loss. As the flight wore on, the conversation got around to Cuba. "One shouldn't trust Castro too far," remarked one passenger. "At some point he might double-cross us. After all we've done, what do we get? In his last speech, when he referred to countries that aided Cuba, he mentioned the Soviet Union last, with China way ahead. How do you like that...
...virtually all U.S. currency. A changing world usually means good times for Bank Note, but change has also dealt the company some severe blows. It lost its biggest customer for paper money when China went Communist in 1949, lost another big customer two years ago when Cuba's Castro switched to Czech-printed money. Bank Note does not think much of Cuba's new currency. "It's not secure, not secure at all," sniffs Colclough...
Pulliam wasted no time replying, "We do not advocate an invasion or an occupation," said he in a letter that ran in the Washington Post two days after Lippmann's column appeared. What he wanted all along, said Pulliam, was "a forceful American policy, aimed at Castro's isolation and eventual overthrow" by partial blockade or quarantine. "The day President Kennedy proclaimed the American quarantine last October, we wrote that the Russians would accept it, while a lot of 'liberal' commentators, including Mr. Lippmann, expected the Russians to 'challenge' the American Navy...