Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Formally, the seven Presidents agreed to send top representatives to an April meeting in Nicaragua. The aim: "To develop and put into immediate effect common measures to restrict the movement of [subversive] nationals to and from Cuba, and the flow of materials, propaganda and funds from that country." The sessions will seek ways of cutting Cuba's subversive airlift (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...representatives will also try to draw plans for stepping up air and sea surveillance of shipping between Cuba and other Latin American ports...
...closed-door sessions, Kennedy pretty much convinced his presidential peers that: 1) the U.S. is keeping close watch on vessels outbound from Cuba to other Latin American ports; 2) the U.S. will interfere with any such ships carrying arms or troops; 3) the U.S. will send, to any Central American nations that request it, enough military force to combat Communist subversion...
When the call went out for aid in ransoming Bay of Pigs prisoners from Castro's Cuba last December, more than 60 U.S. drug and medical equipment companies contributed some $50 million worth of products. On the corporate balance sheets, the donations have turned out quite well...