Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blaming Kennedy, but hell, we've got to do something before things get out of hand down there." Following the example of Senior Republican Dwight Eisenhower, G.O.P. candidates have taken to the attack, charging the Administration with irresolution in its foreign policy and weakness in dealing with Castro...
...achieve the same effect on the cheap, by a trip to the U.N. with layovers in Washington and Havana. Last week Algeria's Premier Ahmed ben Bella, 45, leading his new nation into "constructive neutrality," said goodbye to President Kennedy one day and hello to Fidel Castro the next...
...CRIMSON has pointed to President Kennedy's "opportunity to prove Fidel Castro a puppet." For over a month now our government's clear statements that missile bases of an offensive nature would not be tolerated have been clearly audible in Havans. The opportunity for proof of good intentions is over. That is why President Kennedy has called the latest American move "a difficult and dangerous effort...
...American liberals' passion for rmpiricism- wanting to wait until all the facts are in an then act with certainty--can be carried too far. We have waited for certainty when reports came in that Castro was surrounded by Communist advisors. We have waited for certainty when arms began to come to Cuba in September of last year. The CRIMSON is indeed correct in saying that it is still possible to doubt the certainty that Castro is a Russian puppet. Yet the tragedy of any policy-making decision is that it must be made before all the facts...
...Whether Castro is a Soviet puppet or not is no longer the issue. It would certainly be dangerous to delay action in the Caribbean in the hope of proving once and for all that Cuba is subservient to Moscow, if that delay might give the Russians the impression that we don't really mean what we say. Offering "rapprochement" in the form of a diplomatic ultimatum would not only seem hypocritical to both Cuba and the Soviet Union, but could also involve them in a serious miscalculation of American willingness to honor stated commitments...