Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Staggering Proof. To Kennedy, the time of truth arrived when he received sheaves of photographs taken during the preceding few days by U.S. reconnaissance planes over Cuba. They furnished staggering proof of a massive, breakneck buildup of Soviet missile power on Castro's island. Already poised were missiles capable of hurling a megaton each-or roughly 50 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb-at the U.S. Under construction were sites for launching five-megaton missiles...
...Decisions. Kennedy shattered those illusions. He did it with a series of dramatic decisions that swiftly brought the U.S. to a showdown not with Fidel Castro but with Khrushchev's own Soviet Union. Basic to those decisions were two propositions...
...youth paper Komsomolskaya Pravda last week gave over a page to eight additional Evtushenko poems, including another anti-Stalinist tirade. By week's end, slightly dazed Russian readers found still another Evtushenko work, this one contributed from Havana, where he is writing the scenario for a movie about Castro's revolution. Couched in the form of a Letter to America, it was a predictable tirade against the U.S. blockade of that "small but courageous island which is becoming a great country." The U.S., charged Evtushenko, first forced the Cubans to arm by threatening their independence, and then sanctimoniously...
Tangible Menace. This dramatic expression of hemisphere solidarity was the end of a long, patient road for the U.S., and a signal victory for Dean Rusk. Time after time in past conferences the U.S. had urged on its neighbors the need to confront Castro and Communism. Yet always before, the key nations of Latin America had ducked a commitment. Lingering prejudice against Yankee intervention and the fear of left-led masses back home turned last January's Punta del Este conference into a weary marathon. Patiently, Rusk had listened to the arguments from Mexico, Brazil and the others. Doggedly...
Much of the hesitation about employing a strong policy against Castro has been based on the fear of distressing repercussions in Latin America. Yet last week the Organization of American States, meeting in Washington, took little time to make up its mind. A smog of cigarette smoke clouded the wood-paneled room as delegates from 20 OAS nations heard the choice: approval or disapproval of the unilateral U.S. action on Cuba, and yes or no to a U.S. resolution calling for a united hemisphere stand to eliminate the threat of Communist offensive arms in Cuba...