Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little island of Cuba has again usurped the front pages. The House has approved a "fight if we must" policy; the Secretary of State has asked uncomprehending and frankly amused allies to end the shipping of possibly strategic goods to Castro's government; the entire Administration has been speaking of naval blockade and whispering of invasion. They recognize, if dimly, that the circumstances leading to and the consequences following from the diplomatic break with Cuba nearly two years ago have led almost inevitably to the current relations between the two countries. They realize also that the position...
...have no radar, but we have guts," said a member of a small group of anti-Castro exiles who call themselves Alpha 66. A few days later, a 36-ft. grey and white motorboat slipped through the predawn darkness into the north coast Cuban port of Caibarién, 210 miles southeast of Havana. Navigating by compass, the launch found its way to the San Pascual, an old Cuban steamer grounded on a concrete base and used as a molasses storehouse. A machine gun chattered, and a burst of .50-caliber slugs ripped into the cabin; an explosion split...
Hands-Off Orders. After this bold foray last week, Havana radio called the attacker a "pirate vessel" manned by "criminals armed and paid by the U.S." Cried Castro himself over his powerful short-wave propaganda station: "We no longer have to bother ourselves proving the aggressive intentions of the Yankee imperialists. It is enough to read the Yankee press itself and the speeches of its Senators. They no longer deny their aggressive intentions. No! They proclaim them to the world publicly." Actually there was no indication that U.S. policy had shifted noticeably from the hands-off orders in force ever...
Last month, when the full extent of the massive Soviet arms buildup became evident, anti-Castro exiles hoped that U.S. policy would change. Manuel Antonio Varona, a leader of the hapless Revolutionary Council that figureheaded the Bay of Pigs invasion, urged the U.S. to recognize an exile government-in-arms, declare it a belligerent, and start pumping in large-scale aid- "just like Moscow is helping Castro." Varona calculated that he could raise a 50,000-man international invasion force, and said that he had the backing of all five Central American governments plus Panama. But the U.S. smothered...
...Lawrence called for 1) a total blockade and 2) severance of diplomatic relations with Russia. Such actions, he conceded, "could lead to some fighting." The New York Daily News railed at presidential ignorance: "President Kennedy says he has no knowledge that Soviet Russia has recently sent some troops into Castro Cuba. Cuber, as the President sometimes calls it, is only 90 miles off Florider-oops. Florida. If the Kennedy Administration doesn't know what goes on in Cuba, one wonders how much, or how little, it knows about what's cooking in the rest of the world." Much...