Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet installations on Cuba are no longer necessary because of President Kennedy's offer to assurances Saturday against an invasion of Cuba, Khrushchev wrote...
...unsuccessful Cuban invasion of April, 1961 gave concrete expression to this attitude, and the dynamics of U.S.-Cuban antagonism then proceeded inexorably, until the United States was confronted with the very situation it had wanted to avoid: the creation of a Soviet military base in Cuba...
Premier Nikita Khrushchev yesterday ordered Soviet officers to stop all work on Cuban rocket bases and to make the necessary arrangements for shipping missiles now on the island of Cuba back to the Soviet Union...
Khrushchev added that he was ready to have representatives of the U.N. "verify the dismantling of these {weapons{." In his letter to President Kennedy, he also called for an end of the U.S. blockade of Cuba...
...Khrushchev statement also warned of "an even more dangerous" incident which occurred yesterday when a U.S. reconnaissance plane flew over the Chuketski Peninsula- the Soviet territory closest to the State of Alaska. The Soviet premier asked that such flights over Russia as well as surveillance flights over Cuba be stopped. In his reply, President Kennedy said he regretted this incident and would do everything possible to prevent a recurrence...