Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt to topple Castro's Communism in Cuba had been bungled-and last week, by urging U.S. citizens to accede to a Castro extortion demand, the President did not improve matters. The U.S. South was again aflame on the issue of integration-and, however skillfully handled by the Administration, the U.S. Government had once more been forced to intervene forcibly. In Geneva, U.S. efforts, at separate conferences, to achieve an agreement on nuclear test suspension and a neutral Laos were bogged...
...times and the challenge were extraordinary indeed, and the nation was deeply disturbed by the record of Communist successes and stalemates, from Laos and Cuba to Geneva and outer space. Mindful of his European trip, the President added: "I am here to promote the freedom doctrine...
...President's point was clear, but his globe was topsy-turvy: all of mainland Asia and the Middle East, more than half of Africa, and a third of Latin America, including Cuba, are in the Northern Hemisphere...
...move as cynical as it was cruel, Cuba's Fidel Castro fortnight ago offered to exchange some 1,200 Cuban rebels, all captured in the disastrous, U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion, for 500 heavy tractors, total cost of which would come to about $15 million to $20 million. Castro reckoned well on American humanitarianism (although his Communist propaganda line denies the existence of any such thing) and on an American guilt complex for having sent the Cuban rebels on their abortive mission. Within four days of his ransom demand, a committee of U.S. citizens, headed by Eleanor Roosevelt...
...tractor deal as largely hostile to Fidel Castro, and believe that the U.S. has scored an unthinking propaganda coup. But whatever his critics or supporters decide, Kennedy was right to accept the offer. By spurning it, he would have been betraying the men the U.S. landed in Cuba, and giving Castro still another opportunity to remind Latin Americans of a fact that already know--that the burden of blame for Cuba today rests on the shoulders of the United States. Our pattern of denial must...