Word: castros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military moves that Carter pledged were not much more menacing than the brigade, a response that indeed fits the provocation. He promised to increase surveillance over Cuba, which he had cut back when he took office in an effort to prepare the way for normalizing relations with Fidel Castro. Carter said he would establish a Caribbean military headquarters in Key West, which a Pentagon official said would be a largely symbolic gesture intended to "show the flag 90 miles north of Cuba." Military maneuvers would be expanded in the Caribbean (including amphibious landings of Marines on the beaches...
...controls Guantanamo Bay, or Gitmo as it is known to servicemen, under a perpetual lease negotiated with the Republic of Cuba in 1903. When Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, he demanded that the Americans leave, but the U.S. refused. In 1964 Cuba cut off water to the base; the U.S. soon constructed water-desalinization and electrical-power plants to make the base self-sufficient. In accordance with the treaty, the U.S. sends. Castro a token rent of $4,000 each year. But for 19 years Castro has let the checks pile up uncashed. Last week TIME Correspondent...
Waving his hands like an orchestra conductor and puffing on his ever present cigar, Castro echoed Moscow's argument that the controversial Soviet forces were merely training Cubans. Said he: "You call it a brigade, we call it a training center." Of the Administration's "combat" contention, he said: "This charge is a complete comedy." He insisted every U.S. President since 1962 had known about the Soviet unit. In all those 17 years, he said, "there has been no change in the function or the number of the troops." He accused Carter of creating a "minicrisis" to bolster...
Carter's answer to Castro and, more important, an explanation of the next steps the Administration plans for resolving the dispute with Moscow were expected this Monday evening, when the President was scheduled to make a nationally televised address. To prepare for the speech, Carter continued to consult with his top aides throughout the weekend. Vance canceled a scheduled appearance at Yale University and called off a trip to Panama so he would be available for talks. He had been planning to join Vice President Mondale at the ceremonies that will turn over most of the Canal Zone...
Babbitt-the state's former attorney general who stumbled into the governorship under a provision of the state constitution last year after Governor Raul Castro took an ambassador's post and his successor, State Secretary Wesley Bolin, died in office-shrugged off the company's reaction. Said Babbitt, who has since won election in his own right: "There is an extremely serious situation down there, and the management of that company has proven its inability to take care of the situation...