Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Castro angrily ruled out any U.N. inspection of the missiles in Cuba. He also rejected a compromise proposal that the job be done by the International Red Cross. And he ticked off five conditions that he said must be met before he would consider any sort of agreement 1) the U.S. must move out of the Guantánamo naval base, 2) end its economic blockade, 3) quit aiding "subversive activities," 4) abandon "pirate attacks," and 5) stop the "violation" of Cuba's air and sea space...
...talks had been "fruitful." With their strutting puppet causing an impasse, the Russians announced that Anastas Mikoyan, Khrushchev's First Deputy Premier and the U.S.S.R.'s most amiable salesman, would go to Cuba. There was an understandable notion that Mikoyan would lay down the law to Castro, ordering him to get out of the big boys' way. But on his way to Havana, Mikoyan stopped off in New York for chats at the U.N., declared that U.S. news stories about his visit to Cuba were "absolutely groundless guesses and fantasies." What was more, Mikoyan strongly endorsed Castro...
When Mikoyan landed in Havana, there was Castro to give him a whiskery embrace, and there were the children of Soviet embassy personnel to present bouquets to him and the Cuban leader, who held his as though it were a handful of plucked chicken feathers. The two men then disappeared into a government building to work out what Castro blandly described as "discrepancies." Mikoyan still went out of his way to praise Russia's troublesome Caribbean ally. "The Soviet people are with Cuba body and soul," he told a Cuban newspaper. "I, for my part, wish...
...ships for return to the Soviet Union. Instead, they claimed, much of it was being stored in a long-prepared system of underground arsenals in Cuba's mountain fastnesses. To be sure, many of these sources had an ax to grind; they were embittered by the prospect of Castro's being allowed to survive, with or without Soviet missiles. But they had been startlingly accurate in their warnings of the missile buildup even before President Kennedy was convinced...
Rising Doubts. Castro's refusal to allow inspection was further proof of something that should have been explosively apparent all along: as long as he is in power, there will be a Caribbean crisis. During the agonizing days of week before last, President Kennedy and Russia's Khrushchev exchanged many messages. Some of them have still to be made public (see cover), and in others there were some statements that went largely unnoticed in the U.S.'s enthusiasm over Khrushchev's backdown. Thus, Kennedy at one point declared that the U.S. would be willing to work...