Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believed that the Soviets were planting nuclear missiles in Cuba to counter American installation of warheads in Turkey. But the Soviet missiles were intended, at least in part, to neutralize the threat of a U.S. invasion of the island, which Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Cuba's Fidel Castro believed to be imminent. Despite the movement of U.S. air and land forces to the southeastern U.S. in the early fall of 1962 and the fact that an invasion was proposed to Kennedy as a serious option (he rejected it), McNamara insists that such an action was never in the works...
...front row of the Caracas theater where Venezuela's newly elected President Carlos Andres Perez would be inaugurated sat U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle, neophyte diplomat, basher of Communism and self-described "cheerleader" for democracy. A mere six seats to Quayle's right sat Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the bearded antithesis of everything Quayle stands for. Was a confrontation reminiscent of Richard Nixon's 1959 Moscow "kitchen debate" with Nikita Khrushchev in the offing...
...Quayle and Castro exchanged nothing more than an occasional glance. After Perez was sworn in, Castro, flanked by a huge entourage, swept out of the hall while a crowd of Venezuelans gawked and cheered. Quayle, under strict instructions from the White House not to send any inadvertent diplomatic signals by conversing with Communists, was hustled quietly out a side door. But not before a group of young Venezuelan women in the balcony begged him to stop for a picture, squealing "Ooooh! You are so handsome!" Teased about the incident at a press conference shortly afterward, Quayle frowned and grew testy...
...Castro Valley, Calif., Dick Bash, owner of a store named Combat Arms, reports that he is overwhelmed by demand, largely from gun fanciers who fear that the Purdy massacre might at last prod legislators into taking some serious steps to control the sale of guns. Says he: "There is an arms race on, all right. People are rushing to buy guns before the government takes them away...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Christine Gorman, Scott MacLeod, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...