Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking to the Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Council in Burr Hall, the New York Times correspondent who visited Fidel Castro when he was a revolutionary in the Sierra Madre said Castro has succeeded in making a social revolution...
Herbert L. Matthews, a member of the New York Times editorial board and the first American to interview Fidel Castro, speaks tonight before the Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Council at 8 p.m. in Burr...
...their military presence, have truly effective control over Cuba. If, for example, Fidel himself became expendable, the Russians could easily do away with him and install someone of their own choice. And the Soviet presence makes immensely less likely the chance for any successful internal uprising of Cubans against Castro...
...that context that President Kennedy at his press conference last week referred to the Russians in Cuba as, in a sense, "police units." Yet present U.S. policy toward Cuba is, in the words of one top Administration official, "not containment; it's getting rid of Castro." The U.S. intends to keep on applying all the economic and political pressures it can. It also counts on increasing disaffection among the Cubans themselves, based on their lack of food and their lack of liberty...
...logic of this policy is that at some point the Cubans will rise against Castro. What if this were to happen? Is the U.S. really ready to go to their aid-even at the expense of undertaking military action against the Cuba-based Russians? During the Kennedy-Khrushchev dialogue that arose in the October crisis, the President warned that the U.S. would not tolerate a Budapest in Cuba. What he meant was that the U.S. would intervene if Russia attempted to put down, as it did in Hungary, a Cuban revolt against Castro...