Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supposing that President Kennedy's foreign policy should be made the central issue of this fall's campaign. By embracing Ike's language, the party has forced its candidates for office to insist ever more strongly and frequently that the current Administration has wobbled inexcusably in its attitudes toward Cuba. As a necessary corollary, they have shouted for precisely the sort of punitive action against the island that the President at least senses to be extremely dangerous, and that nearly every U.S. ally has sensibly protested...
That foreign policy has for the moment ceased to be a non-partisan issue is not the worst of all this furious talk. It is rather that the President, by failinp to make sure the electorate is sufficiently aware of just how complicated issues like Cuba are, has failed also to stifle public suspicions that Democrats are always appeasing someone. Mr. Kennedy's calculation that he should avoid educating the people to painful realizations in election years is going to backfire badly...
General Assembly, he had not a word to say about Cuba. In his notably restrained speech, he inevitably put Algeria in the ranks of the Afro-Asian neutralists, ex pressed the expected sympathy with "our brother Arab people in Palestine," and urged economic help to undeveloped countries, including Algeria...
...reporters, he made an effort to redress his image by stressing that his trip to Cuba was not intended as a "commentary" on U.S. relations with Castro, and added: "On the other hand, without trying to be presumptuous, I hope to contribute something to the lessening of tension between the United States and Cuba." But Ben Bella's Foreign Minister later declared that any attempt to overthrow the regime "chosen" by the Cuban people would be a "threat to peace." In part, the Algerians insisted, their position is based on the fact that during the struggle with France...
...federal budget, against unilateral tax cuts, against wasting troops in Laos ("We cannot save a far-off country which doesn't care whether it is saved or not"), for holding the line in Berlin and, less expectedly, for John F. Kennedy's cautious approach to Cuba...