Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This bewildering combination of circumstances has an inhibiting effect on U.S. policy toward Cuba. There are people in the Administration who regard the Soviet presence with some equanimity, and even argue that it is necessary to take Khrushchev's sensibilities into account, and to understand that having already lost face in the Communist bloc by his missile withdrawal, he cannot afford to lose more by pulling his troops out under U.S. pressure. Khrushchev promised to withdraw them in "due course." and last week President Kennedy instructed Ambassador Foy Kohler to find out. in no combative way. what the Russians...
President Kennedy conceded at his press conference last week that Soviet troops in Cuba are surely being used to train Cubans to export revolution and sabotage throughout Latin America. Moreover, by one White House estimate, at least 13,000 students from other Latin American nations are in Castro's Communist schools; about 100 graduate agents leave Cuba monthly to cause trouble back home. The tacit bargain with Khrushchev may have its advantages for the U.S., but it has them for Khrushchev...
President Kennedy last week gave a relaxed impression. His Cuba policies were still under fire, and what to do about accommodating or getting around the bulky presence of Charles de Gaulle affected everything from the Common Market to NATO and nukes. But Kennedy moved cautiously and patiently, as if he had decided that there was nothing to be gained by haste...
...saved the Union in grave hours." Republican National Chairman William Miller thundered that the G.O.P. "must win in '64, or there won't be a country worth saving in '68." Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and numerous other speakers lambasted the Kennedy record on Cuba. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller charged that the Administration had "abdicated virtually all leadership toward achieving necessary civil rights legislation...
...tegui. Smuggling eight FALN gunmen aboard the freighter, he surprised the rest of the 36-man crew. In a series of gloating radio messages, he identified himself and his henchmen, said that captain and crew were unharmed. Then silence from the Anzoátegui presumably on its way to Cuba and a propaganda triumph for Fidel Castro...