Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nash asks for a show of hands: how many people at least don't want to invade Cuba? Most of the audience seems agreed--except, of course, those freshmen. Telegram blanks are handed round by the Tocsins. The freshmen march outside, their black umbrellas aloft, chanting in unison, "We have secured peace in our time." "Well," says one boy walking home, "it was a choice between this and the Bob Hope Show --and I'm glad I came to this...
Political organizations at the University generally approved President Kennedy's action in ordering an arms blockade of Cuba after learning of large Soviet missile installations there...
...United States is and should be committed to the elimination of Soviet military power in Cuba, because the presence of medium and intermediate range missles constitutes a direct military threat to the United States and its allies in the Western Hemisphere; because that presence is in violation of the pledge given repeatedly by the Soviet government that Russian aid to Cuba has been purely defensive. And finally, because Soviet missile bases in Cuba undermine the status quo in the Cold War geographical balance of power which has kept the Western Hemisphere off limits to Soviet military penetration...
Only Tocsin, the University's disarmmament group, indicated substantial opposition to the President's policy. The organization has called for a meeting in Lowell Lecture Hall at 9:45 tonight to "consider alternatives to war over Cuba...
...leading Soviet expert on international law said yesterday that the United States' move to impose a naval blockade on Cuba was tantamount...