Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech after another, Henry Kissinger has been swinging harder and harder at an old troublemaker for Washington, Cuba's Fidel Castro. Last week during an appearance in Dallas, the Secretary used his firmest language yet, warning that the U.S. "will not accept further Cuban military intervention" in Africa and hinting darkly of "decisive action" if Havana refused to pay heed...
...focus of Kissinger's ire is the 12,000-man force that Castro dispatched to Angola last year to help Moscow bring its client regime to power. At present Moscow's Latin Hessians seem to be marking time in the former Portuguese colony, perhaps while waiting for another African assignment. One possibility is Rhodesia, where Prime Minister Ian Smith's white minority regime faces the beginnings of what could be a bloody "war of liberation...
...nothing about Castro's troops, and thus allow much of the world to conclude that the U.S. can be faced down by a small, Soviet-backed country...
Diplomatic Deterrence. In any case the Administration has been reviewing its options-which do not seem to be great-for pressuring Cuba. As long as Castro's links with Moscow remain intact, diplomatic or economic sanctions against Havana would not be very effective. Domestic support of another showdown with the Russians over Cuba, such as occurred in the 1962 missile crisis, might be thin if Americans believed all that was at stake was the future of some white regimes in Africa...
Nixon's trip roused all your old "lynch Nixon" prejudices. You didn't react the same way to McGovern's cavorting with Castro and the Viet Cong...