Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uproar in the U.S. over Soviet Russia's military presence in Cuba grew louder by the week. Rising in the Senate, New York's Republican Kenneth B. Keating reported that "there is absolutely confirmed and undeniable evidence that the Soviets are maintaining the medium-range missile sites they had previously constructed in Cuba. This gives rise to the very real possibility that Russia hopes to return the heavy missiles to the island -or, even more ominous, that they may have left missiles on the island and need only to wheel them out of caves...
...recent weeks, said Keating, another Russian ship arrived with military hardware. The Communist buildup is rapidly approaching the point, he said, where the U.S. will find it "impossible to get the Communists out of Cuba with conventional weapons." Taking off from there. South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond charged that, contrary to official U.S. estimates of 16,000 to 17,000 Soviet troops in Cuba, the Russians actually have between 30,000 and 40,000 men on the island. Added Thurmond: There are from 100 to 200 ballistic missiles still in Cuba...
...broken up" their-missile bases and that two new shipments showed "no evidence of offensive weapons." The Defense Department sharply denied Thurmond's report of 30,000 to 40,000 troops. Even so, Secretary of State Dean Rusk conceded that "there is a significant Soviet military presence in Cuba...
Last fall, before President Kennedy admitted the presence of Soviet offensive missiles in Cuba, Senator Kenneth Keating revealed that they were there. And Kennedy claimed they weren...
Solid v Liquid. Months before Khrushchev suggested his Cuba-for-Turkey swap, the Joint Chiefs had begun considering the phase-out of bases in Turkey, Italy, and in England as well. The dismantling of the 60 Thor missiles in Britain is to begin this spring. More than compensating for their loss are eight Polaris subs operating out of Holy Loch, Scotland, each toting 16 missiles. To replace the 15 Jupiters in Turkey and the 30 in Italy, the U.S. plans to deploy possibly six subs in Mediterranean waters. Total firepower: 96 missiles, each with a nuclear-tipped warhead packing...