Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cried Frost, "didn't he do a good one! Didn't he show the Irish all right?" Had Kennedy overcompensated for his Cuba power failure in his actions against Big Steel? Poets aside, there were many who thought so. Would he use his massive powers soon again? In the same way? With what limitations? Against any other domestic antagonist that tried to thwart his will? The prospect was somewhat frightening-and despite the popularity of Kennedy's victory, that prospect accounted for a great wave of disputation (see following story...
...censors desperately clawing for their blue pencils. Burke's theme: "America and the West in general have a guilt complex about power." The complex, said Burke, derives from the "fundamental unreality" of seeking peace without being willing to use power: "It frustrates our every use of power. In Cuba, in Suez, in Korea, currently in Laos, we half use it in a compromise between dream and reality . . . The first signs of a refurbished wisdom will be found in a frank, conscious and determined use of our power-in all its forms -to determine the course of international events...
Meanwhile, the pair seemed to be sitting tight in Moscow, wearied by all the sudden interest. "Oh, tell them I've gone to Cuba," was all that questioners got out of the man who is known to his friends as Jim Andreevich Burgess...
Helicopters beat low over Havana, and Russian-built MIG-19 sweptwing jets sent sonic booms thundering down the capital's seafront Malecon Drive. In every town along the 760-mile length of Cuba, the speechmakers mounted their platforms to trumpet victory to the assembled populace. The first anniversary of Fidel Castro's triumph over the haphazard U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion was at hand, and May Day lay just ahead. It was time to celebrate in Communist Cuba...
...this year, unlike last, Cuba's revolutionaries have very little to congratulate themselves about. The regime still stands -a well-armed dictatorship is not easily overthrown, as the Bay of Pigs fiasco demonstrated. Yet it is a leadership in disarray, increasingly ostracized by its hemispheric neighbors, beset by economic catastrophe and torn by a bitter, not yet settled internal struggle for power...