Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 24--Richard N. Gardner, deputy assistant Secretary of State for international organization affairs, declared last night that the United States should continue its contributions to the United Nations despite its opposition to the U.N. Special Fund project to Cuba...
While emphasizing Soviet concession on disarmament, Levchenko stressed Soviet power in Cuba. He noticed that placing Soviet arms in Cuba "gave Americans a chance to live in the presence of heavy weapons nearby. Was this good for Americans? No. But the Soviet people have lived in the presence of these weapons for 12 years." This taste of danger, he suggested, may make Americans more willing to accept Soviet proposals to withdraw all American weapons to American soil...
...long last, a P2V Neptune flying from Puerto Rico found the Anzoátegui where no one expected it to be-180 miles off Surinam, sailing south down the coast of South America. Instead of Cuba, the hijackers were headed or Brazil, where another hijacker. Soldier of Fortune Henrique Galvão had taken Portugal's Santa Maria two years...
...living Anglo-American alliance already has scads of transatlantic ties, from honorary citizenship in the city of Jacksonville, Fla., to life membership in the Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Co. of Alexandria, Va. Yet Sir Winston is an honorary citizen (since 1941) of only one country-to wit, Cuba...
...questions that troubled the typewriters of Washington were fraught, as they liked to say, with significance. Was Cuba a nest of Red missiles-or wasn't it? Had De Gaulle's intransigence undermined NATO? Could Pierre Salinger walk 50 miles? In their cogitation chambers, capital columnists pondered such weighty problems. All but one of the columnists, that is. He climbed into his car one day last week and headed for spring training in Fort Lauderdale. Fla. He bore the improbable name of Shirley Povich and an even more improbable distinction. He not only writes sports for the Washington...