Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuba crisis stayed at the top of the world's agenda. Restless and annoyed after days of Russian doubletalk and Castro bombast. President Kennedy held a long meeting with the National Security Council, called the Joint Chiefs of Staff into session. Messages sped back and forth between Washington and Moscow-but outside the innermost circles of the U.S. and Soviet governments, no one knew what John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were saying, and perhaps promising, to each other...
...Caves. After two weeks of palaver with Castro, Russia's Anastas Mikoyan kept delaying his departure; the world could have no notion about what mischief the two might have cooked up, but in his infrequent public pronouncements, Mikoyan echoed only the intransigent Castro line. The U.S. naval blockade of Cuba continued, but it seemed mostly a matter of form: so far. the U.S. has passed 48 of the 49 foreign ships that entered the blockade area on to Cuba without boarding. Government spokesmen said they were satisfied that Russia's "offensive" missiles have indeed been removed from Cuba...
...seems unlikely that given some diplomatic autonomv, Cuba would oppose Moscow from the Chinese rather than the Yugoslav direction. The ceaseless efforts of Castro's representatives to win the favor of neutral nations despised by the Chinese, and, most recently, the Cuban suggestion that ambassadors of neutral nations in Havana be granted vague inspection assignments, smacks more of Belgrade than Peiping...
...diplomacy and intelligence can serve Washington's ends elsewhere in the world, they can apply in this hemisphere as well. The U.S. has nothing to lose by initiating negotiations with the Castro government, and reconsidering its self-fulfilling prophecy that socialism cannot survive in Cuba without Soviet domination. Events of the past month have shown world Communism as an organic system, directed by men of varying, and sometimes conflicting, commitments. The United States may well be the only country in the world that hesitates to capitalize on its enemies' conflicts...
...long as he has no alternative to Soviet support, Fidel Castro's course is determined. We will never know, to use George Kennan's metaphor, whether Castro will go through an open door until we stop trying to push him through a closed...