Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...achieved a complete victory in Cuba, the Soviet Union had suffered a stunning setback. Just as significant as Nikita Khrushchev's backdown in the face of firmness was the fact that the Cuba crisis had heartened the Western alliance while helping to splinter the Communist world...
Speaking in Sanders Theatre, Mme. Rossel emphasized that although major crises such as Cuba, Berlin, and disarmament are the U.N.'s most important topics of discussion, they are not the only ones. She said that the U.N. is presently considering many problems concerning the living standards and basic freedoms of the underdeveloped and captive peoples of the world...
...Cuba the Soviet boss sounded far more belligerent than his later actions. He admitted that Soviet thermonuclear warheads were in Cuba-although next day, Oct. 25, in the United Nations. Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin was still publicly denying U.S. charges. Inevitably, Khrushchev illustrated a point with an anecdote. U.S.-Cuban relations reminded him of a man who came upon hard times and found it necessary to live with a goat; the man was uncomfortable, but it soon became a way of life. Cuba, said Khrushchev, was the U.S.'s goat. "You are not happy about...
...power two months ago, his mystique has been badly tarnished by intraparty squabbles and by his international status seeking in Havana and points East. Ben Bella's latest excuse for his recent visit to Castro: "I would have failed in my duty if I had not gone to Cuba to learn about its experiences and avoid in my country the errors that have been made there...
...aware that U.S. surplus food, though little publicized, is supplying three-quarters of the daily diet for 3,000,000 Algerians. As in other new African countries, the people are also discovering that Communist-bloc aid is mostly window dressing; since Khrushchev's hasty retreat from Cuba, they have become even more leary of Soviet attempts to make Ben Bella the Castro of Africa. Whatever the subject under discussion, Algerians often ask: "What is reality?" A government official in Algiers asked the question last week, but did not answer. Instead, he pointed at a map of France...