Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami Beach, Scranton delivered perhaps the most forceful, sense-making Republican statement so far about U.S. policy toward Castro's Cuba. Said he: "Our national policy has become one of reacting to events rather than one of seizing opportunities. In few places can we see present American indecision so clearly as we can see it in Cuba. The Castro regime is becoming more deeply entrenched in Cuba with each passing day. It has openly pledged its allegiance to the Communist camp. It has built a powerful military machine, second only to our own in this hemisphere...
...United States can avoid the problem of power and how to use it effectively and responsibly. An effective policy does not consist in orders to the marines to turn on the water mains at Guantanamo, or in unleashing Cuban exiles to attack Russian merchant ships trading with Cuba...
...While our objective is to expel the Communist leadership, we cannot return Cuba to the social and economic base of 1959. We must turn the social revolution already in progress toward democratic directions and control. To succeed, we must separate the Cuban, people from their Communist rulers. We can do this only through a coordinated three-pronged strategy of economic, psychological and guerrilla warfare...
Latin America's troublesome students go out on strike at the pop of a firecracker: against the government, for Cuba, to oust professors, or anything else that catches their fancy. Last week, on the eve of final exams, the 18,725 students at Caracas' Central University were on strike for a brand-new reason: the right to flunk forever and still remain in school...
...control from his father in 1942 when Leyland was limited to double-decker buses and army tanks, turned it into the world's largest manufacturer of heavy-duty vehicles by absorbing competitors and peddling everything from panel trucks to earth movers to 130 countries, including Castro's Cuba, to which Leyland is delivering 450 buses in defiance of the U.S. trade embargo; after a long illness; in Preston, England...