Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Galbraith, the war in Viet Nam is one that "we cannot win, and, even more important, one we should not wish to win." As far back as the early days of John F. Kennedy's presidency, when Berlin, Cuba and Laos loomed as the most menacing trouble spots for the U.S., Galbraith was counseling against the dispatch of even a few American combat troops to South Viet Nam. "A few," he advised Kennedy in 1962, "will mean more and more and more." His forecast proved flawless. From 773 advisers at the start of the decade, the U.S. force grew...
...Pigs that timid application of power can be worse than no exercise of power at all. Putting his experience into practice, he acted like a different leader during the Cuban missile crisis. He made it bluntly clear to Nikita Khrushchev that the U.S. was prepared to invade and overrun Cuba if the Russians did not remove their missiles. The result was a textbook settlement for a nuclear confrontation: both sides could claim a victory of a sort. The U.S. had erased a Communist threat, and Khrushchev could tell his people that he had prevented a U.S. invasion of Cuba...
...power is still considerable, and the responsibility to use it wisely has, if anything, grown over the years. The challenge is to find the right way to apply it to each situation. Threats may work against a probable enemy, as with Khrushchev in Cuba, but even angry coercion may not move a friend. Thus British ships still carry cargo for Hanoi...
Prayer parodies also seem to be in vogue in Castro's Cuba. Last week Radio Progreso in Havana broadcast an interview with a campesino named Apolinar Hernandez, 60, who out of gratitude for his new life since the glorious revolution is teaching his children a prayer of thanksgiving to the bearded Maximum Leader...
...Americans tensely watch the negotiations that fizzle in Panmunjon and the negotiations that never get started in Saigon, 1500 delegates from 132 countries are quietly gathering in New Delhi for the conference that "will be more important to the future of the globe than Vietnam or Korea or Cuba or China," according to Undersecretary of State Eugene Rostow...