Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After leaving the Navy in Agu., 1960, Sanderson entered Harvard, but he was recalled to service during the Berlin Crisis, when he served at Guantanamo, Cuba...
...name time, Galbraith continued, the Chinese must have anticipated the Cuban crisis, and hoped it would distract the attention of the United States from anything they might do in India. This view is plausible, he said, since the Chinese withdrawal followed almost immediately upon the removal of missiles from Cuba by the Soviet Union...
During that period Oswald became the self-declared chairman of the New Orleans chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a pro-Castro outfit. He also got a card at a New Orleans public library, drew out several spy novels by Ian Fleming (Kennedy's favorite cloak-and-dagger author), a book about Kennedy called Portrait of a President, another about the Berlin Wall, two novels by Aldous Huxley, and several books on Soviet and Chinese Communism-nearly all of which were distinctly anti-Communist in flavor -and a book describing the assassination of Huey Long...
...Numbers. But such nasty little showboating stunts to disrupt the elections were not the only things the Castroites had in mind. Last week Be tancourt offered proof that Communist Cuba was sending in heavy arms ship ments for full-scale guerrilla warfare. On display in Caracas was an arsenal of three tons of F.A.L.N. weapons: 31 submachine guns, five 60-mm. mortars, 20 bazookas, 28 packages of plastic explosives, 81 Belgian automatic rifles with 20,000 rounds of ammunition. Most of the serial numbers and other markings were ground off. But one rifle still had a number - it turned...
Calling in ambassadors of the hemisphere nations, Venezuela's Foreign Minister accused Castro of "an act of aggression." He announced that Venezuela would demand an emergency OAS Council meeting, and President Betancourt proposed a concerted hemisphere campaign to oust Castro from Cuba. "Joint action will be necessary," he said, "to finish with this bridgehead of Communism in Latin America...