Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They talked of Cuba, but also of India -of tightening the economic and political noose around Castro's neck, of finding out what India needed and what could be done to help her. At the moment there seemed to be opportunities for bold maneuver on all the fronts of the cold war, and if these could be explored and exploited, it would indeed be time to talk of a climactic period...
...Pique. Hours before that deadline came the first hint of a Russian backdown. Fidel Castro sent a letter to the U.N.'s Acting Secretary-General U Thant withdrawing his objections to the removal of the bombers from Cuba; they were, he said in a characteristic fit of pique, old and inferior aircraft anyhow. Kennedy paid no public attention to Castro's message. He was still waiting for word from the Kremlin, and it came shortly after noon on the day of the press conference...
...Russian nationals-and for the first time, Kennedy described them as "ground combat units." More importantly, when Kennedy had first announced his quarantine of Cuba, he made it perfectly plain that on-site inspection was the only way to make sure that Soviet missiles had really been removed. But Castro, despite Khrushchev's pledge to let U.N. inspectors into Cuba, remained obdurate. Therefore, said Kennedy at his press conference, the U.S., even while continuing negotiations toward inspection, would continue its aerial reconnaissance flights over Cuba...
Kennedy was closely questioned about the contents of his communications with Khrushchev. Had he made any commitments of which the public remained unaware? No. Did his "no invasion" promise in effect guarantee Castro's continued, unhampered existence? Well, for one thing, Kennedy indicated that there would be no such pledge until the U.S.'s inspection terms were met. Even then, said Administration aides, it would remain a cardinal point of U.S. policy to see Castro unseated, if only through economic and political pressures. The U.S. has been urging its allies, with some success, to give up trade with...
...daily diet for 3,000,000 Algerians. As in other new African countries, the people are also discovering that Communist-bloc aid is mostly window dressing; since Khrushchev's hasty retreat from Cuba, they have become even more leary of Soviet attempts to make Ben Bella the Castro of Africa. Whatever the subject under discussion, Algerians often ask: "What is reality?" A government official in Algiers asked the question last week, but did not answer. Instead, he pointed at a map of France...