Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into Cuba, we shall violate the principles by which we have lived and labored and presumed to judge others. If we stay out, we shall give half our continent to the Commies. How do we choose now? To be live hypocrites like our cynical European cousins? Or to lie down and die, everlastingly righteous, in the marketplace of history? It's a crummy choice, but perhaps in its making we shall somehow come of age morally at last...
...words could scare Nikita Khrushchev out of Cuba, his technicians would be homebound from Havana right now. After four hours of debate, in which U.S. Representatives unleashed all their anger at the Soviet buildup in the Caribbean, the House passed the Senate-approved resolution reaffirming the right of the U.S. to use force-if needed-in the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine. Secretary of State Dean Rusk talked, mainly about Cuba, to some 40 foreign ministers from all over the world as they gathered at the United Nations in New York. Rusk also laid the groundwork for an informal meeting...
...Bothered. If any of this bothered either Khrushchev or Fidel Castro, they rather handsomely managed to conceal their dismay. Castro announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to help build "a fishing port" in Cuba to "facilitate the operations of the Soviet fishing fleet in the area of the Atlantic." With a bland air, Castro explained that he was "surprised to learn the extraordinary number of fishing boats that the Soviet Union has on all the seas." The Soviet newspaper Izvestia echoed the line of innocence: "The implementing of this agreement will not only allow Soviet fishermen to increase their...
Boon v. Boondoggles. The two disagree on everything else. Breeding seems unworried about Cuba ("I go along pretty strongly with what President Kennedy's doing about Cuba"); Dole argues for action ("I think a naval blockade has possible merit, and I'm concerned about any thought that the Monroe Doctrine may be outmoded"). On domestic economic issues, Breeding has voted with the Kennedy Administration. Dole has not. Says he: "No Kennedy leader has mentioned the possibility of reducing a program, any federal program. They want a $900 million boondoggle on public works. They've added...
...Cuba last week came news of a daring plot to overthrow Fidel Castro's Communist regime. Though Castro himself said nothing and his captive press kept it quiet, Cuban censors let pass an Associated Press report from Havana giving some details of the plot and the fate of the plotters. Miami's Cuban exiles confirmed the story; so did refugees newly arrived from Castro's fortress island and the chief of an inside-Cuba underground organization who was briefly in the U.S. A major revolt was indeed planned for late last month-and was discovered by Castro...