Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arthur Krock, who has not recently been in Palm Beach, felt free to insist that it was the President him self who had been doing the talking. At any rate, the President's thinking ranged over a variety of subjects, from tax prospects to reflections on Cuba...
...Elections: Kennedy recently read a Gallup poll saying that the Cuba crisis changed few votes in the recent elections. The President, for one, does not agree; he thinks it saved a lot of votes for the Democrats...
...fourth anniversary of Fidel Castro's rule in Cuba was celebrated with the inevitable parade and even more inevitable speech. The parade at least was better than usual, if less fun: gone were the baggy pants and nonchalant waves to bystanders. Now it was all crisp creases, steel helmets and eyes staring mechanically front. As tight arrowhead formations of Soviet-built MIG jets thundered overhead, Cubans got their first glimpse of Russian missiles: the bulky surface-to-surface variety carried by coastal patrol boats, and the grey, sharp-nosed SA-2 antiaircraft rockets that presumably shot down...
...been to swell Mr. Kennedy's head to the point where he feels that he may treat his allies exactly as he pleases, and have them take it. Likely enough the outcome of the Nassau meeting with Prime Minister Macmillan would have been the same with or without Cuba, but the consummate tactlessness of the U.S. offer of Polaris almost certainly would not. On the other side of the same coin, however, the President's new confidence--even bonhomie, if one may judge from his Christmas chat, has allowed him to brush away British hesitations and French hostility toward...
...crisis has also brought about an indistinct but significant change in the Administration's policy toward Cuba itself, and toward Cuba in relation to the rest of Latin America. Some of the fervid Congressional cries for Castro's blood have lately become more muffled. True, there was the strange incident of the President's speech last month to the released Cuban prisoners, which through unfortunate overtones of "liberation" elicited shouts of war from the exiles. Were the overtones deliberate? Nobody knows, but it remains fairly clear Washington really has stopped depending on an invasion...