Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro...
...sooner did Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan arrive in New York last week, after 24 days of confabs with Castro, than he began posing for photographers while chomping hot dogs in the fashion of an old Brooklyn Dodgers fan. He spent a friendly evening with U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, much of it occupied by discussion of such matters as Pushkin's short stories. Bantering with newsmen, Mikoyan cracked that Stevenson was "more difficult" than Castro...
Even so, he loved them both-"Stevenson da, Castro da," But it was nyet, nyet, nyet when Mikoyan settled down to serious discussion of Cuba. During Mikoyan's small-talk sessions with Stevenson, some U.S. officials spoke of the possibility that the Russian was waiting to see President Kennedy before really doing business...
...into an eight year stay in Washington. Thrown against another Democrat, Zelenko chose to test the limits of acceptable liberalism. He warned Catholics that Ryan opposed federal aid to parochial schools. He challenged Ryan's call for the admission of China to the U.N., and described him as pro-Castro (Ryan had warned against the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. Recently he supported the President's blockade decision). He decried Ryan's opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee, and described his vote against the Cunningham Amendment (which would cut off publication-exchanges with Communist countries...
...well and good. There could be no doubt but that the U.S. position vis a vis not only Cuba but the entire Communist world had been visibly advanced during those four weeks. But that critical question remained: What to do about Castro? For so long as he remains in power, the Caribbean will remain in crisis and Cuba will be a staging area for Communist subversion, or outright aggression, throughout Latin America. Long before the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba became apparent, it was obvious that Castro was a threat to vital U.S. interests in the Caribbean...