Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republic, and to eliminate colonialism. Not very curiously, the style and tone of the article closely resembles that of Robert C. Hill, who used to be Ambassador to Mexico, and who now quotes from the U.N. Charter to show why the U.S. ought to "favor collective intervention in Cuba." He defends the very principal of intervention against Herbert L. Matthews, in what the Y.P. unluckily terms a "debate". (Matthews immediately concedes that intervention cannot be called impermissable and cites the case of Trujillo, whom Hill does not mention...
...possibility that the United States might fail to reach young people was one of several "nightmares" that Lerner said President Kennedy must have. Others are the possible failure of the "united states of Europe," a reconciliation of Sino-Soviet views, a continuation of troubles with Cuba, problems in Brazil, the fall of the "neutral" Laos regime, and failure to win the uncommitted nations...
...Nepali border town of Koilabas, and were actually led and directed by an Indian intelligence officer named Sitaram Singh. Even when driven off. Katmandu insisted, the "bandits continued to fire from Indian territory." A government-controlled newspaper in Katmandu charged that India was trying "to do a Cuba" in Nepal. Noting that India had failed to deliver a promised arms shipment. Nepal's Foreign Minister Giri said: "We are not happy in our arms agreement with India. The day might come when we will approach another government." Red China, obviously, will be happy to be "approached...
When President Kennedy embargoed imports from Fidel Castro's Cuba last month, the Tampa cigar makers, who roll 97% of the 693 million Havanas puffed each year in the U.S., faced going out of business. Most of the 4,800 Florida cigar workers and their bosses grudgingly accepted the ban as a necessary means of choking off Castro's dollar supplies. Now that Washington has approved a legal way around the embargo, Tampa cigarmen are wondering out loud whether their industry is being uselessly sacrificed. As explained by the Treasury Department, the embargo is powerless to prevent entry...
...Brazilians prefer to act peacefully," but there may be a revolution. "I don't think the revolution will be started by the communists, but they will be the winners in the end." The example of Cuba showed above all that "Operation Pan-America" should have started much sooner...