Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, or five years from now, I can tell you what the situation was," said Press Secretary Pierre Salinger. The most persistent rumor was that the Secret Service had been tipped that a Cuban kamikaze pilot might try to ram the presidential plane or that a Cuba-based missile might be fired...
Both at home and abroad there has been growing perplexity about U.S. policy, which seems to view Communist governments in widely varying shades of Red. The U.S. demands a trade embargo on Cuba, yet freely sells wheat to the Soviet Union and its satellites. The U.S. deals with Moscow but refuses to recognize Peking, and has laid down separate sets of rules for dealing with Communist Yugoslavia and Poland...
...CUBA. "There will be no retreat from our policy toward the Castro regime in Cuba as long as it continues to threaten the. security and stability of other nations in this hemisphere. Moreover, we regard this regime as temporary...
Among Fidel Castro's top lieutenants, none is more outspoken than Che Guevara, the Argentine Marxist who now serves as Cuba's Minister of Industry. Che, in fact, is so painfully frank that Castro has several times told him to soften his speeches. But Che keeps on talking. "We don't make little white ponies here," he says. "We've got little white elephants in Cuba." On Havana TV last week, in a remarkable confession of economic failure, Che paraded the elephants in full view...
...receive honorary doctor of laws degrees. Later they flew to Palm Springs, called on Dwight Eisenhower (it was, said Ike, "just an evening with old friends") and settled down to private talks. The agenda inevitably included disarmament, the lagging Alliance for Progress, what to do about Panama and Cuba, but no treaties were signed, no formal decisions taken. Now that the Chamizal dispute on the Rio Grande has been settled, Mexico and the U.S. have few major outstanding disagreements. There is one issue - a minor one as international flaps go - that continues to bother the Mexicans, and Lopez Mateos gently...