Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem down into individual steps, then deciding at each stage what is wanted from the adversary and determining what he can reasonably be expected to give. Otherwise, governments often confuse taking a stance with seeking a solution. As illustration, Fisher cites the economic blockade of Cuba. "Suppose Fidel Castro called up the President and said, 'You win; send down your terms. Anything within the realm of reason, I will sign.' How many weeks would it require to figure out what the U.S. would like to have happen that it could reasonably expect to have happen? The failure...
...Cuban, the first from his country to take up residence in Lima since Peru broke off relations in 1960. The arrival of Núñez in Peru, which struggled with Cuban-supported, revolutionaries through much of the 1960s, was another sign of the increasing acceptance that Fidel Castro's regime is finding throughout Latin America these days...
...long ago, Cuba had diplomatic relations with only two of the 23 members of the Organization of American States. One was Mexico, the only country that did not go along with the economic and diplomatic sanctions imposed on Castro, at U.S. urging, by the OAS in 1964. The other was Jamaica, which did not join the OAS until 1969. But the OAS policy of isolation has been broken not only by Peru but also by Chile, where the Marxist government re-established relations with Havana in November 1970. Panama and Ecuador are expected to follow before very long...
Policy Changes. The diplomatic acceptability of Cuba is the result not so much of any effort by Castro-who has not given up trying to export his revolution to his neighbors-as of the change in U.S. policy toward Peking and Moscow. If the U.S. can make new approaches to its old cold war antagonists, the argument seems to run, why then should Latin American states not show their independence by doing the same with Cuba? As a result, says one top State Department officer, "You can see the Latinos every day sawing away at the bars around Fidel...
...Johnny Bench is a better catcher than Manny Sanguillen of the Pittsburgh Pirates, then Fidel Castro works for Gillette...