Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another thing, there was still a lively argument about Russian troops in Cuba. New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating had charged that there were upwards of 17,000-as many or more than at the height of last October's Cuba crisis. At his press conference, President Kennedy was asked about Keating's statement. Said he: "It's our best information that 4,000 or 5,000 have left since January and that there has not been an equal number come in. In fact, much, much less-300 or 400 at most." Kennedy shrugged...
...Cuban affair of a different stripe was plaguing the U.S. last week. The story had leaked that a Castro agent, working as a bus driver on Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba, was shot and killed in 1961 by Marine Captain Arthur J. Jackson, a Medal of Honor winner in World War II. The marine officer had fired in self-defense, reported Jack Anderson in the syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column, and then recruited four other marine officers and six enlisted men to help him dispose of the body. The U.S. made a pro forma apology to Castro. Then, Anderson...
Then there is the matter of the Bay of Pigs. After last October's Cuba crisis, Bobby, riding high on the Administration's apparent success, reopened the whole issue by insisting that his White House brother had not called off the air cover for the Bay of Pigs invaders. Air cover, he claimed, had never been planned in the first place. Bobby's fraternal defense only stirred up more controversy. And he himself admits that it was a political mistake: "If I had it to do over again, I probably wouldn...
...industrial machinery. In turn, the Russians promise to buy Brazilian oranges, cotton, rice, cocoa, plus 60,000 tons of coffee per year-about 5% of Brazil's coffee exports. Being tea drinkers themselves, the Russian's propose to send shiploads of the coffee to Castro's Cuba. And on this point the two countries fell into their first conflict. Under the terms of the agreement, no goods may be re-exported to a third country without consent of the original exporter. So far, Brazil is withholding its consent...
...officer," is given the authority and funds to build up the necessary network of agents, cutouts, line crossers, drops and cover organizations. His assignment can generally be classified as either "clandestine" or "covert." A clandestine operation (the Bay of Pigs invasion, Russia's secret installation of missiles in Cuba) is one that is recognized as a hostile act carrying with it the risk of war. A covert operation, however, is one accepted as "a peacetime avenue of action which, when used, will not upset international apple carts." In Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 state visit to Britain aboard...