Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement was addressed to the situation prevailing immediately after the President's speech and before there had been action by the OAS or consideration by the Security Council of the U.N. or reaction from other nations, and before there was any response from the Soviet Union or from Cuba, or any indication of specific decisions taken by the United States Government beyond the imposing of the quarantine...
Hardly had Nikita Khrushchev promised to back away from his Cuba missiles adventure than the Kennedy Administration started warning journalists not to get too encouraged, not to use words like "capitulation," not to assume that the "hard line" was applicable to all fronts of the cold...
From that moment on, some of the momentum seemed to go out of the U.S.'s new drive against Soviet Communism and Castro's Cuba...
...Angry Man. Khrushchev had not only agreed to dismantle his missiles and to remove them from Cuba; he had professed himself willing to have United Nations inspectors oversee the withdrawal. This was a basic U.S. condition. But arrangements for the inspection became confused when they were placed in the hands of the U.N. and its Acting Secretary-General U Thant...
Thant organized a 19-man team to go to Cuba. At his urgent request, the U.S. obligingly lifted its blockade and aerial surveillance. Thant flew to Havana-and ran into a cold climate. Ordinarily, Fidel Castro is one of the world's most assiduous airport greeters. But he did not show up to welcome Thant, and when the two finally did meet, Castro had his gat ostentatiously bolstered on his hip. In his long, rambling talks, Castro sputtered that Khrushchev had sold him down the river. As to the bargain the Russian Premier had made with Kennedy, Castro cried...