Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were dutiful cheers from the faithful, but the London Daily Express' Colin Lawson, filing from Havana, reported that "Fidel Castro has taken his biggest knock in popularity since he came down from the hills four years ago." So had his Russian pals. When Lawson first arrived in Cuba a fortnight earlier, newspaper headlines shouted CUBA is NOT ALONE, and front pages were full of photographs of Russian troops on the march. When Khrushchev backed down, the pictures disappeared. "Discreetly, but nevertheless with emphasis." reported Lawson, "many Cubans now show their feelings about Khrushchev. One or two badge-carrying...
Plot to Humiliate. His central theme was that any plan for inspection of missile sites was a Yankee plot to "humiliate"' Cuba. "What right has the U.S. to ask this? We are the victims. We do not accept it." If Cuba's Soviet ally wants to pack up its missiles and go home, said Castro, that was Russia's business, for "the strategic arms were not Cuban property." Cuba and Russia were still buddies, he went on, though he reserved the right as an equal to bring up later "some discrepancies between the Soviet and Cuban governments...
Just so no one would misunderstand, Castro made it clear that all the other Soviet-bloc weapons already delivered-the MIG jets, heavy artillery and tanks -belonged to Cuba alone. In fact, said Castro, "several months ago the Soviet Union decided to cancel the whole arms debt of our country." Was Cuba weakened by Khrushchev's retreat? Was Castro diminished? "Don't think that the retirement of these strategic arms disarms us. All the other arms stay in this country. Fatherland or death! We will conquer...
Venezuela's tough-minded and hard-pressed President Romulo Betancourt, a liberal who is a dedicated enemy of Castro's, had already started preparing his country for a state of mobilization on the ground that Cuba "stands as a constant threat to our security." He now sent battle dressed marines to stand vigil over the oilfields and put one-half of Venezuela under virtual martial...
...after TIME, but it soon changed into a Teutonic version of Confidential magazine. Editorially, it stood against almost everything and for almost nothing-except, perhaps, recognition of East Germany, which it has frequently proposed. Never particularly friendly to the U.S., Der Spiegel blasted President Kennedy's action on Cuba as hypocritical, weak, and an incitement to thermonuclear...