Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands in preventing the spread of Communism to other countries in the Caribbean." Said a Latin American Ambassador to the U.S.: "It is to be hoped that we all do not contemplate another Bay of Pigs type failure of purpose. We are all ready to go now, but tomorrow Castro may confuse or subvert some of the very governments that are the most eager to finish...
...reassure the worried Latin American nations, Secretary of State Dean Rusk had to call a hasty briefing of their ambassadors in Washington, declared that the U.S. had no intention of underwriting Castro's future. Continuing U.S. policy, he said, is to squeeze Castro to death with political and economic pressures. Moreover, Rusk explained that the "no invasion" pledge applied only to a satisfactory settlement of the missile crisis. If Castro tries to export Communism by force, the U.S. will still feel free to invade the island...
Talk & Sabotage. This assurance was less than persuasive to Latin Americans, who know all too well that Castro has been and still is trying to export Communism by subterfuge and sabotage. Just last week saboteurs, acting on Castro's orders, touched off explosions in Venezuela that damaged four key power stations in the rich oilfields along Lake Maracaibo (see THE HEMISPHERE). As if this were not enough, the Communists at week's end blew up four Venezuelan pipelines. Such acts, presumably, were the sort that President Kennedy had vowed to answer by invasion. Yet, as of last week...
While the diplomats were talking and Castro was sending out his saboteurs, the U.S. military buildup went on. Four LST troopships showed up at Fort Lauderdale, one at anchor in the channel and three nosed up to the beach with their bow doors open like yawning hippopotamuses. The 14,000 Air Force reservists that had been ordered to active duty were told that they might have to serve as long as one year. The Tactical Air Command had fighter-bombers and troop transports ready to go. The Strategic Air Command was on combat alert, with a fleet...
...Fidel Castro magnanimously told U.N. Secretary-General U Thant that he would see that Anderson's body is returned to the U.S. He would do so, Castro said, "on humanitarian grounds...