Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photo reconnaissance jet swooped over Cuba, darted from point to point with whirring cameras. Offshore were four escort fighters, their jets snarling angrily, their young pilots spoiling for a fight...
...this happened just a few days ago. And it served to stress one of the most curious facts of the Cuba crisis: that though the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba brought the world close to war last October, the presence of Soviet forces there may now have some peacekeeping advantages. Continuing Soviet strength in Cuba makes U.S. photo flights necessary, yet it is Soviet authority that presently restrains Castro's trigger-happy gunners from trying to stop them...
Herbert L. Matthews charged last night that the Cuba problem has been "over-simplified and distorted in the United States, and this oversimplification has brought on the failure of U.S. policies toward Cuba...
Matthews repeatedly attacked the "black and white" attitude of the United States toward Cuba. "The Eisenhower administration never made any distinction in practice between a radical nationalist revolution and a Communist revolution. The Communist Party does not run Cuba--Castro does. In the long run, this may be a very important distinction, and not only in Cuba. The Chilean Com- munists, for example, are Chileans first and Communists second...
...question period after the talk, Matthews said that the U.S. has "built our own iron curtain around Cuba, in not letting teachers and students visit the island." He added that the New York Times has been unable to obtain a visa to send a correspondent to Cuba...