Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican beat Kennedy in 1964? "If he keeps on doing what he is doing, he'll probably beat himself," said Barry. Was Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department stalling on the prosecution of "students" who defied U.S. travel regulations and paid a propaganda visit to Castro's Cuba? "I'm not as close to Bobby as I was. He threatens a lot of people, and about all he does is walk the dog." How would Barry treat an unpatriotic teen-aged girl? "Maybe if she took off her tennis shoes and got her hair cut and took...
...years since Fidel Castro took power, some 300,000 people, or 4% of Cuba's entire population, have fled the country. And still they flee...
...more than a warm, late-summer breeze off Manhattan's East River. It was a wind of hope -however mild. Even the Soviet Union's dour Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko remarked it. Last year his opening speech took the form of a tirade against U.S. policy toward Cuba, but now Gromyko was all coexistence and détente-"the good wind whose breath is today felt by the nations...
Confident that they are in for keeps, Cuba's Communists at every level sing Moscow's song of peaceful co-existence with the U.S. Anti-Yankee propaganda is less shrill in tone, and those vicious caricatures of Uncle Sam poking life less Latinos in the belly are disappearing from the papers. "Why is it," asks a University of Havana student, "that Kennedy wants to be friends with Khrushchev, but not with Fidel? After all, both are leaders of socialist nations...
After all the uproar over the Cuban crisis, Buchwald added his own classification to Washington's newly manufactured categories of Hawks and Doves: "A dove was someone who was for a blockade of Cuba. A hawk was someone who favored bombing the Russian missile bases. We might as well confess right now, we weren't a Dove or a Hawk-we were Chicken...