Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then came Cuba. In mid-October President Kennedy was challenged by reports of Russian missiles in Cubs. At first he denied the reports; then, dramatically, he acted...
About two weeks later I encountered the image once again. It was at a Town Hall rally in New York for the 59 students who went to Cuba. Town Hall was packed with young and middle-aged radicals. One of the last speakers of the afternoon was Maxwell Geismar. I was surprised to see him there. He had been, I knew, an important liberal critic in the 1930's, and his literary criticism remains founded in social comment. Still, I had never seen him at a rally before...
...Progress. An hour later, with Ire land's Frank Aiken, the subject was the Congo. With Brazil's Joao Augusto de Aranjo Castro, the proposal for an atom-free zone in Latin America came up. Rusk said the U.S. would accept such an arrangement if it included Cuba and permitted U.S. transport of nuclear weapons through the Panama Canal...
...months ago, Gimpex is run by lagan's own People's Progressive Party and operates as an extension of the government. Last month Gimpex moved into potatoes, onions and garlic with imports from Poland and Czechoslovakia; it is filling lumber orders for East Germany and Russia. To Cuba it ships railroad ties and rice; in return, Castro sends cement, printing machinery and foodstuffs...
...crippling, 79-day strike, Gimpex saved the day for Jagan. When food reserves dried up and the opposition threatened to starve the government out of office, Gimpex imported petroleum products, flour and other staples, using Cuban and Russian ships. Last July Gimpex actually managed some indirect aid from Cuba. The company sold $1,000,000 worth of railroad ties to Cuba, and the money-paid in advance-was lent by Gimpex to Ja-gan's government...