Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approach. It was expressed by Assistant Secretary of State Viron Vaky, who told a congressional subcommittee: "Nicaraguans and our democratic friends in Latin America have no intention of seeing Nicaragua become a second Cuba and are determined to prevent the subversion of their anti-Somoza cause by Castro." At week's end, new Ambassador Lawrence Pezzullo flew into Managua to meet with Somoza. Simultaneously, veteran Diplomat William G. Bowdler, who was on the U.S. team that earlier this year tried to persuade Somoza to step down, met with representatives of the rebel government in Costa Rica. The Americans...
...Viet Nam military fiasco: the 1961 invasion at Cuba's Bay of Pigs. But he also spent several years assaulting the still sensitive memories of the CIA's chastened plotters; interviewing the bitter Cuban exiles who had watched their comrades die on the beach; quizzing Fidel Castro and dozens of his victorious defenders. The result is truly The Untold Story: an infuriating tale of blunders by bureaucrats and a young President who was too dazzled by the CIA and the Pentagon to redesign-or abandon-a hopeless project...
...aerial photoanalysts had dismissed some dark blotches off selected landing sites as either "seaweed" or "clouds." They turned out to be coral reefs, which ripped open the hulls of landing craft. The Bay of Pigs had been chosen partly for its assumed isolation from Castro's defending army. As they churned toward shore, the invaders were startled to find part of the beach bathed in light from huge lamps installed by the Cubans against precisely such a pre-dawn strike. Later, they even discovered two microwave radio towers alongside the bay. Far offshore, the U.S. Navy maneuvered four destroyers...
...that the Essex was heading toward Cuba to watch over the invasion, no detailed maps of the island were available. The carrier's frustrated flyers picked out towns and roads by the lines on a tattered Esso road map. Forbidden to fire, they could only watch helplessly as Castro's jets strafed the invaders and gunned down the ponderous B-26 bombers flown by American and Cuban-exile pilots...
...meticulous planning and an unshakable commitment to win, fired their guns in rage at the departing ships. Incredibly, none of Kennedy's CIA or military advisers had warned him that, faced with disaster, the invaders could not simply slip into the Escambray Mountains and carry on as anti-Castro guerrillas. The mountains were too far away, separated from the landing site by swamps, and the invaders had been given no training in survival tactics...