Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of Russia's retreat from Cuba, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan rose in the House of Commons to deliver his reasoned judgment on the outcome. It was, he declared, "one of the great turning points of history...
...IRBMs, and today the Soviet Union has many more missiles aimed at Western Europe than the U.S. has missiles aimed at Russia. That point was underlined last week by Lord Home, Britain's Foreign Secretary, in a rebuke to the British intellectuals who keep equating Russian bases in Cuba and U.S. missile bases abroad. Said he: "We sit in Europe covered by every kind of missile directed at us from Russian soil. If you bargain between one base and another, you'll not get rid of one Russian base pointed at Europe, and you'll lose...
...Cuba. naval base, held by the U.S. under a perpetual lease, negotiated in 1903 and reaffirmed in 1934. It grants the U.S. "complete jurisdiction and control." In the nuclear age, Guantánamo no longer has any great strategic value, but with its excellent anchorage it is a valued warm-water training base- and as long as Castro controls Cuba, the base will have a special value as a free world outpost, a reminder of the U.S.'s proximity and power...
...letters went only into heavily Negro districts, were aimed at keeping Democratic Negro voters away from the polls. A Michigan judge agreed, ordered the committee to leave the voters alone. For his part, Michigan Republican George Romney, his voice weakened by a cold, joked bitterly about the Democrats and Cuba: "First they wanted Joe Kennedy to go down there and buy it. If that didn't work, they planned to send Billie Sol Estes down there to steal it. And if that didn't work, they'd have sent Harry Truman down there to tell...
Only one substantive issue still made campaign headlines-Cuba. Democrats, predictably, leaped to line up behind the President, argued that Cuba was no longer a proper matter for debate. Said Colorado's Democratic Senator John A. Carroll: "At this crucial moment in our history, I earnestly hope that no one will attempt to make political capital of our situation in Cuba or in Berlin." Retorted Carroll's G.O.P. opponent, Republican Peter Dominick: "I strongly supported prohibiting the granting of foreign aid to Cuba in both the 1961 and 1962 foreign aid acts. I have publicly urged the creation...