Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration's plan to set up a private corporation to operate a communications satellite system was approved. After a mild Southern filibuster, Congress approved a constitutional amendment to outlaw poll taxes in federal elections, sent it on its lengthy route toward ratification by the states. With Berlin and Cuba still in the headlines, the Administration got all it really wanted for defense -and more: Congress insisted on authorizing funds the President did not want for development of the RS-70 aircraft and the National Guard...
Smack in front of his trailer platform, bold signs challenged him. "How long. Mr. Kennedy, how long?" asked one. "Less profile, more courage, blockade Cuba." read another. "O.K., we licked Mississippi, now how about Cuba...
...sudden reversal of U.S. policy spurred the Arab press to frenzy. "Americans urinate on their own principles!" screamed Beirut's Al Anwar. The Egyptian Gazette, drawing a parallel between the Middle East and the Caribbean, cried that "Israel is a greater menace to Arab countries than Cuba will ever be to the U.S." Cairo's semi-official Al Akhabar took a more sophisticated line in charging that the Hawk deal was aimed at U.S. Jewish voters so as "to win as many seats as possible for the Democratic Party...
Will Latin American nations support the U.S. in firm, direct action against Communist Cuba? Two positions taken last week by the two most populous countries suggested a clear answer: No. Brazil's Prime Minister Hermes Lima told a delegation of Castroites in Rio that Brazil will never support punitive measures against Cuba simply because it has a different regime from other American countries. Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos told a press conference that he did not consider "Cuban subversion" a threat, and that action would be warranted only if another nation were the victim of an ''unprovoked...
...herself. Her scoops are modest ones, and generally unidentifiable as such without the "exclusive" label that Hearst sometimes attaches to her copy, e.g., a Marianne story last month reporting that key Republicans, specifically Minority Leaders Dirksen and Halleck. had "pledged to support President Kennedy's present policy on Cuba...