Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turning to Cuba, Johnson said: "The use of Cuba as a base for subversion and terror is an obstacle to our hopes for the Western Hemisphere. Our first task must be, as it has been, to isolate Cuba from the inter-American system, to frustrate its efforts to destroy free governments, and to expose the weakness of Communism so that...
...often listens with only half an ear. Last week he struck a new and ominous note that commanded full attention. In a violent speech marking the third anniversary of the Bay of Pigs debacle, the Cuban beard demanded that the U.S. stop flying U-2 recon naissance planes over Cuba - or else. "These physical aggressions against our territory are intolerable," cried Castro. "If what they want is to provoke a war, they are going to have it - cost what it may. Let us prepare our surface-to-air missiles." In a diplomatic note delivered through the Swiss embassy in Havana...
...course sit-ins and trips to Cuba are already trying the patience of school administrators across the country. Open intellectual inquiry and political action have their administrative pitfalls. But the limits of political freedom are properly defined by law; and boards of education should not play at being courts...
...Russia quite so peaceable. The Chinese attack Moscow for cowardice in signing the test ban treaty with the imperialists, and they have spoken cynically about the possibility of surviving a nuclear war, but after all, Russia, not China, has the Bomb. Russia, not China, risked nuclear war in Cuba and came close to risking it in Berlin...
...thing, the satellites-cherishing their new, limited but heady independence-do not particularly want to give Moscow a chance once again to play the supreme arbiter of the Communist world. They relish a situation in which their support is solicited and paid for-a situation in which even Cuba can afford to play both Communist camps against each other...