Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Khrushchev, Kennedy told newsmen and the nation over television, had agreed to get his bombers out of Cuba within 30 days (just why it would take 30 days remained unclear, and no one asked). That being the case, Kennedy was ordering that the naval blockade of Cuba be lifted (just why it was being lifted before the planes were actually removed was also not made clear...
...John J. McCloy, who heads a three-member group negotiating about Cuba with Soviet representatives at the United Nations...
They talked of Cuba, but also of India -of tightening the economic and political noose around Castro's neck, of finding out what India needed and what could be done to help her. At the moment there seemed to be opportunities for bold maneuver on all the fronts of the cold war, and if these could be explored and exploited, it would indeed be time to talk of a climactic period...
...President had not held a press conference for ten weeks. A month had passed since his last major public pronouncement about Cuba. Thus, when Kennedy finally faced newsmen last week, there were plenty of questions to be answered. And answer them he did-up to a point. Beyond that point, he left unresolved some issues basic to the meaning of the Cuban crisis...
...Pique. Hours before that deadline came the first hint of a Russian backdown. Fidel Castro sent a letter to the U.N.'s Acting Secretary-General U Thant withdrawing his objections to the removal of the bombers from Cuba; they were, he said in a characteristic fit of pique, old and inferior aircraft anyhow. Kennedy paid no public attention to Castro's message. He was still waiting for word from the Kremlin, and it came shortly after noon on the day of the press conference...