Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world trouble spots. The Soviet leader expressed his interest in seeing a truly neutral Laos-and left Kennedy with the impression that he might possibly help get the stalled Geneva talks off the ground-but added that Laos was of no great interest to the Soviet Union. Neither was Cuba, although Khrushchev added that U.S. policies were fast turning Castro into a good Communist. Kennedy bluntly denied the charge...
Then Castro tried to set a condition: "The raising and negotiation of this problem cannot be made only by cablegram, and it is better that a delegation should be sent to Cuba. In this there should be one of the principal members of the committee, preferably Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt or Milton Eisenhower." Castro obviously was elated at the prospect of making propaganda headlines out of having a Roosevelt or an Eisenhower come hat in hand to Havana...
Milton Eisenhower and Eleanor Roosevelt turned down the invitation immediately. The committee then wired Castro: "The committee does not believe that the interests either of the prisoners involved or of Cuba's need for raising agricultural production can be best served by a propaganda duel through an exchange of cables." The committee was prepared to ship 100 tractors to Castro within two weeks, with other lots of 100 to follow. Neither Eleanor Roosevelt nor Milton Eisenhower would go to Havana -but the committee had in mind sending six U.S. engineers and farm experts to complete negotiations. And, following...
Grisly Negotiation. At week's end Castro agreed to the committee's proposal for sending the six technicians, but insisted that they have power to discuss the "quality and amount" of the "indemnification" demanded by Cuba. That was where things stood, but it was perfectly predictable that Dictator Castro would drag the whole grisly negotiation out as long as possible-and then, maybe, turn the entire proposition down. As the negotiations and the cable exchanges went on last week, the public furor within the U.S. became increasingly intense. Many Americans believed deeply that the U.S. had a moral...
Marx & Meany. Since the agenda skirted such practical labor matters as collective bargaining, the closed shop or overtime, the rafters rang for five days with inflamed speeches denouncing aggression in Cuba, the French in Algeria, French atomic tests in the Sahara-and, of course, colonialism, a subject that set the Ghana-Guinea radicals off in full cry against I.C.F.T.U. and its Western ties. Charging that I.C.F.T.U. was out to sabotage Africa's labor movement, not encourage it, they argued that any African union that joins the A.A.T.U.F. must cut all its ties with foreign labor groups...