Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Department of State has chosen the worst possible time to enforce its ban on travel on U.S. citizens to Cuba, a time when information about the island seems least reliable, and curiosity about it most pressing. American passports, it is true, are not good for travel in East Germany, or in Albania, or in Cuba. But no one has ever been fined five thousand dollars, or sentenced to five years in jail, for going to the first two. Yet that is what awaits the American who goes to the last...
...Meet the Press" interview on NBC television, Bundy said that immediately after the Soviets pledged to remove their missiles and bombers from Cuba he had been hopeful of achieving agreement on other problems...
...former dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences also characterized as "uncalled for" the charge in a Saturday Evening Post article that U.N. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson advocated a "Munich" solution to the Russian challenge in Cuba...
Shapiro's articles on Cuba have appeared in the Nation and the Atlantic Monthly. They term U.S. policy "inflexible," insist that responsibility for Cuba's drift to the left is two-sided, and warn that even an invasion by 250,000 U.S. troops would not bring about a clear-cut military victory. Shapiro, a 35 year-old man whose wife also teaches at MSU, returned from a visit to Cuba in August, and then referred to Cuba as a Communist dictatorship and a police state...
These references did not, however, eliminate the residue of controversy which a Lansing television station had started when it said, in reference to Shapiro, "we do not think a State-supported institution should be a refuge for Communists or fellow-travellers." The station suggested that Shapiro teach in Cuba. The State of Michigan has a long and unenviable record of applying political pressure on its public universities. At Wayne State in Detroit, curriculum and personnel have, from time to time, been subject to a tacit veto by the state legislature which allocates funds. Michigan State, which boasts of being...