Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room. "I'm a dying man," Eastland was told. "I don't mind killing you. You better get back to your seat." Reported Eastland later: "I went right back and sat down." The gunman ordered Pilot Forrest Dines to fly to Cuba, but later tossed his .45 automatic on the cabin floor and surrendered. In an orotund senatorial non sequitur, Eastland said afterward that he saw no reason for changing his mind about guns. "It's all the Supreme Court's affair," he declared. "They make it possible for criminals to run wild...
LIMITED NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY, 1963. Originally put forward by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1954, the treaty was brought into being by Premier Khrushchev and President Kennedy ten months after the Cuba missile crisis. More than 100 countries (excluding France and China) joined in the so-called Moscow Treaty, which banned nuclear testing in the atmosphere, in space and under water...
...Scramble. The occasion was almost a national holiday for Cuba, where thousands queued up around bookstores waiting for their free copy of the book and Radio Havana poured out endless plugs for it. Castro practically had his choice of publishers for editions outside Cuba, has already authorized five other publications in Europe and the Western Hemisphere. In the U.S., he gave the nod to the leftist Ramparts magazine, and publication of the diary in Ramparts last week set off a mad scramble among other magazine and paperback houses for republication rights; at week's end, they were still locked...
...there's one thing R.F.K. has shown himself good at, it's recognizing past errors of judgment (cf. the significant difference between his early and recent positions on Joe McCarthy, civil rights, Cuba and Viet Nam). How many lives would have been saved if L.B.J. had this same quality...
...board chairman of Eversharp, and a veteran right-wing crusader. Last fall he brought out his first publication, Twin Circle, a conservative Catholic weekly. His more recent venture is edited by Ed Butler, 34, a Schick public relations man who once debated Lee Harvey Oswald on the subject of Cuba-an encounter that was preserved on tape and has been made into a recording...