Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most noxious of our walls is the one we have built around Cuba. It is a paper wall, erected in the offices of the State Department, and its sole functions to keep Americans out of Cuba. Americans who travel to that island without a specially validated passport face, on their return, fines of up to five thousand dollars, jail terms of up to five years, or both...
Ostensibly, the purpose of the travel ban is to protect Americans; we have no diplomatic representatives in Cuba. But the evidence indicates that the risks involved in a trip to Cuba are minimal. Freedom of movement is a corollary to freedom of speech, to the all-important right to inform oneself. The government's policy on travel to Cuba is an unwarranted invasion of individual rights...
...Machado spent two student years in jail for opposing Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. He went into exile, first in the U.S., then in France, where he became a convinced and highly disciplined Communist. Returning to Latin America in the 1920s, Machado helped found the Communist Party in Cuba, carried cash and medicines to guerrilla fighters in Nicaragua, worked with the Venezuelan Commu nist Party from exile on the Dutch island of Curacao. Eventually he kidnaped the Governor of Curasao, commandeered an American ship, and invaded his homeland...
...only a few hours. Washington, which in the Bay of Pigs learned its own lasting lesson about excessive hope-raising, and has since broken with the council, dismissed the reports as "inaccurate and highly colored," and dangerous because "they deceive and frustrate the hopes of anti-Castro elements" within Cuba. U.S. intelligence men guessed that no more than 50 people could be put ashore in Cuba unnoticed. In Miami, Manuel Antonio de Varona, 54, coordinator of the Revolutionary Council, agreed that perhaps infiltration was a better word than invasion. And in Philadelphia, the freighter Maximus, bound for Havana, loaded...
...second phase, which covers most of 1962, rumors of the affair kept reaching the newspapers, Tory and Labor politicians, but apparently not the Prime Minister. During the Cuba blowup, Ward was all over the place, suggesting to the Prime Minister's office and to the Foreign Office that his friend Ivanov be used as an intermediary to help settle the crisis. But, said Macmillan, a lot of people were then trying to get into the act "to weaken our resolution." A little later, Wilson himself got a letter from Ward, boasting of his supposed help in settling the Cuba...