Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlantic until they surfaced. The subs were allowed to go peacefully on their way. Although the U.S. military buildup continued, the Administration, as far as anyone on the outside knew, had put no strong pressure on the Soviet Union by insisting that U.N. inspectors be allowed into Cuba by a specified deadline-or else. To many, this tolerant attitude suggested that Kennedy may have struck some kind of understanding with Khrushchev in some of their still-secret correspondence. Top Administration officials vehemently denied any such deal, beyond the no-invasion pledge in return for the missile removal...
...politics. On his record, he was not too far to the right of middle-of-the-road Republicanism. But his image was that of a conservative who had just crept out of a cave. For weeks, he had demanded that the Kennedy Administration take strong action against Cuba; when action was taken. Homer thought he had it made. But with ranks closing behind the President, no one heard Capehart's I-told...
...lost?" he asked reporters. "Reason won. Mankind won because if there hadn't been reason, then there might not have been this reception, and there might not have been any elections in the U.S." Khrushchev even seemed to concede a U.S. missile lead. "We put 40 rockets in Cuba," he said. "What are 40 rockets? Even 140 would not have been enough...
...informal Red summit. But as of last week, Khrushchev seemed eager to avoid such mass meetings. He sent no invitations at all to Red China, North Korea and North Viet Nam, and called in his East European allies to Moscow one by one for quick briefings on Cuba. Last to arrive and last to leave was Hungary's Janos Kadar...
...Cuba the only issue that inflamed the Sino-Soviet rivalry. Nehru reported that Moscow, after weeks of stalling, finally agreed to sell India MIG jet fighters, which might be used against invading Red Chinese troops. A Pravda editorial on Peking's border war with India carefully refused to take sides: if anything, Pravda leaned slightly toward India. "Bellicosity," tut-tutted the sweet voice of Moscow, is "foreign to the very spirit of a socialist state...