Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However much you may consider the Cubans misguided, you must admit that Dr. Castro's government still retains the support of the majority of the populace. How else could he survive when he has armed the whole nation ? To suggest "liberating" Cuba under these circumstances is to justify the Russian "liberation" of Eastern Europe, and to make utter nonsense of any American talk of upholding freedom...
Democrat Bayh (pronounced by), former Speaker of the Indiana House, angrily denounces Capehart as a "warmonger." Capehart, he charges, is "playing politics with the blood of American boys and the safety of American homes." Bayh supports the Kennedy Administration argument that Castro may collapse from economic chaos, cites the Kennedy pledge that action will be taken against any aggressive attempt to export Communism from the island. Bayh's argument is sometimes effective. Acidly commented one farmer: "Sure, let Homer call for an invasion; we'll all follow him when he yells 'charge' and hits the beach...
...against Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, the Democrats chose James B. Donovan, 46, a stocky, pink-faced, balding political newcomer who negotiated the release of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers, and is currently working for the liberation of prisoners taken by Fidel Castro during the Bay of Pigs invasion. For attorney general, against the G.O.P.'s Louis Lefkowitz, they put up Manhattan Borough President Edward R. Dudley, 51, the U.S. Ambassador to Liberia from 1948 to 1953, and the first Negro ever nominated for statewide office in New York...
...Employ "whatever means may be necessary, including the use of arms, " to prevent the Castro regime from "extending by force or threat of force its aggressive or subversive activities to any part of this hemisphere...
...Secretary of State Dean Rusk's testimony before a joint closed-door session of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees. Rusk argued against a U.S. blockade to halt the flow of Commu nist arms to Cuba, or any kind of unilateral U.S. action to deal with Castro. "It is not possible any longer for the U.S. to act strictly in unilateral terms," said Rusk. "We are engaged nose to nose with the Soviet Union right around the globe. It is almost inconceivable that that engagement could become hot at one point and not at others...