Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to extinguish the spirit of 1776." They held with Lincoln, they said, that "no man is good enough to govern another man without that man's consent." To many Americans, that was the very essence of Americanism-and, ultimately, they carried the day. The U.S. gave Cuba and the Philippines back to the people...
...before, partly because collegial leadership breeds indecision and partly because Russian foreign policy has suffered some notable defeats in recent years. One of the reasons that Nikita Khrushchev was ousted was his foreign adventurism, which led to such Soviet setbacks as the forced withdraw all of its missiles from Cuba. Since then, Russia has had to pay the cost of backing the Arabs in their Middle East debacle and has seen its onetime chief ally, China, become a vituperative and potentially dangerous enemy right on its borders...
...Kremlin's biggest worries is the disintegration of Communist unity. Of the 14 Communist states, five are not represented by their top leaders at this week's celebration. Albania rejected the invitation, and China did not stoop to reply, while Cuba's Fidel Castro, North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and North Korea's Kim II Sung sent others in their place. The schisms are all the more serious because they come at a time when Russia's rulers lack the imagination and daring to formulate a policy to deal with them...
Galleries containing works by the artists of Spain, Japan and Italy are oddly disjointed and somehow déjà vu. Perhaps this is because, while Von Groschwitz visited many foreign countries, for economic reasons he has relied too often on sculptures already displayed in Manhattan galleries. Similarly, Brazil, Cuba, India, Mexico and the U.S.S.R. are represented by one artist apiece-a form of tokenism that might better have been bypassed...
...avoided. Besides, everything is inter-connected, as Israel made quite clear at the rally last Monday: "Make no mistake, the University is not neutral in this war." The next step, as SDS leaders explained, was to go after Dow Chemical (napalm and Saran Wrap) and the Central Intelligence Agency (Cuba...