Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Khrushchev's new retreat could, from a U.S. viewpoint, only be called progress. But there remained room for much more progress. Still in Cuba were Russian nationals-and for the first time, Kennedy described them as "ground combat units." More importantly, when Kennedy had first announced his quarantine of Cuba, he made it perfectly plain that on-site inspection was the only way to make sure that Soviet missiles had really been removed. But Castro, despite Khrushchev's pledge to let U.N. inspectors into Cuba, remained obdurate. Therefore, said Kennedy at his press conference, the U.S., even while...
...until the U.S.'s inspection terms were met. Even then, said Administration aides, it would remain a cardinal point of U.S. policy to see Castro unseated, if only through economic and political pressures. The U.S. has been urging its allies, with some success, to give up trade with Cuba and restrict ships flying their flags from carrying goods there, is ready with a four-point plan that would deny U.S. port privileges and business to foreign shipowners whose ships continue to enter Cuban ports...
Critical Question. After the President's press conference, a sense of lull settled over the nation. The 63 ships that comprised the blockade force steamed back toward their home ports. The Pentagon announced that 14,200 Air Force reservists, called up at the height of the Cuba crisis, were being released. In a Thanksgiving message, President Kennedy said that "there is much for which we can be grateful as we look back to where we stood only four weeks...
...well and good. There could be no doubt but that the U.S. position vis a vis not only Cuba but the entire Communist world had been visibly advanced during those four weeks. But that critical question remained: What to do about Castro? For so long as he remains in power, the Caribbean will remain in crisis and Cuba will be a staging area for Communist subversion, or outright aggression, throughout Latin America. Long before the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba became apparent, it was obvious that Castro was a threat to vital U.S. interests in the Caribbean...
Radio Peking grew so angry with the Russians over their withdrawal from Cuba that it used a new technique for its philippics : each sentence was followed by a burst of martial music. With or without brass accompaniment, the discord between Moscow and Peking reached a crescendo last week, and no one any longer pretended harmony. In Budapest, addressing a congress of the Hungarian Communist Party, Moscow Delegate Otto Kuusinen. 81, oldest member of Khrushchev's Presidium, denounced a Red Chinese visitor two seats away: "Bigmouthed extreme leftist critics are bravely brandishing their verbal weapons before world imperialism." But when...