Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first flush relief at Khrushchev's back-down, it is all too easy to forget that the United States got itself into the crisis. The Eisenhower and the Kennedy Administrations closed off, one by one, avenues of conciliation and negotiation with Castro, invested the Cuban revolution with a significance-the wrong significance at that-far beyond its real meaning, and convinced themselves and the entire country that the establishment of a Socialist dictatorship in Cuba constituted a danger which ultimately could be dealt with only by force...
...Acting Secretary- General U Thant contributed to the lessening of tension with an announcement, yesterday, that he would go to Cuba at Prime Minister Fidel Castro's invitation to discuss the Cuban crisis. A U.N. spokesman said that Thant expects to leave for Cuba tomorrow...
...Band show, which was seen by more than a million persons on CBS television, was devoted to great comedy acts of the year. The Prize for the friendliest performance went to Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev for their recent love affair. Dartmouth's musicians contented themselves with a rather dull precision drill...
...base commander, Rear Admiral Edward J. O'Donnell, has no authority to grant visas to the U.S., and even if he did have authority, the U.S. Cuban lease agreement of 1903 does not establish Guantánamo as a port of exit for Cuban citizens. Eager to give Castro no legal grounds for demanding annulment of the lease, which runs in perpetuity and can only be terminated by mutual consent, Guantánamo officers carefully explain to Cubans who slip past Castro's guards that they cannot be authorized to travel to the U.S. Result: the Cuban refugees...
...China; your State Department cut off aid to an anti-Communist government to force it into a coalition government with the Communists." The New York Daily News pointedly reprinted a question that Presidential Candidate Kennedy, in 1960, aimed at Eisenhower: "If you can't stand up to Castro, how can you be expected to stand up to Khrushchev...