Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sachar had reprimanded assistant professor Kathleen Gough Aberle for public statements she made at the height of the Cuban crisis. Mrs. Aberle had expressed the hope that Cuba would defeat the U.S. in a limited war. After Sachar's reprimand, Mrs. Aberle and her husband, formerly the chairman of the Brandeis anthropology department, resigned...
...ended on an optimistic note: "The growing pool of manpower continues to grow, a burden that should be a blessing, a liability that could be an asset. I have no doubt that these problems will some day be solved." A Strong Conviction. There did, of course, remain Cuba as a dark spot on the presidential horizon. But at his news conference, the President drew comfort from the fact that of some 17,000 Cuba-based troops, the Soviet Union has "withdrawn approximately 3,000 in these past weeks. We are waiting to see whether more will be withdrawn...
...Carefulness. With everyone mindful of the troublemaking potential of Castro's Communist Cuba, the security arrangements were indeed remarkable. Some 50 U.S. Secret Service men were there; a U.S. Army company moved in from the Canal Zone; the carrier Wasp, its jet fighters just three minutes away, cruised offshore. Some of the food for Kennedy's private meals was flown into San Jose from the Wasp. Preparatory to it all, the U.S. had requested and received from Costa Rica the right to screen all visa requests for entry into the little country. Among those who applied and were...
...Vote of Confidence. But always, despite the serious intention of talking about economics, that pesky problem of Cuba kept popping up. Arriving in San Jose the day before Kennedy. El Salva dor's President Julio Rivera spoke to his greeters with a grim quip: "Let us first have a minute of silence for me. Castro said I would be dead by now." In his first statement to the Presidents, Kennedy eloquently reiterated the anti-Castro theme: "At the very time that newly independent nations rise in the Caribbean, the people of Cuba have been forcibly compelled to submit...
William Worthy, a correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-America, will discuss "Censorship by Passport" at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Dunster House Junior Common Room. Worthy, a former Nieman Fellow, who has travelled to Communist China and Cuba without passport, is now appealing his conviction for illegal re-entry of the United States...