Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy's fight back from the personal and political Pearl Harbors of Cuba and Laos. But for all its glory, the voyage of Freedom 7 and its lonely passenger could only make more clear the fact that the cold war remains to be won-and can be-on earth...
Even apart from the nay-saying counsels from London, Paris, the Pentagon and Capitol Hill, the White House was wary enough on its own. After the damage done to prestige by the bungled invasion of Cuba, the Administration felt that it could not afford to take any risks in Laos. And so, far from debating whether to go into Laos, the NSC discussed how to get out of the embattled kingdom with the least possible embarrassment. The decision to withdraw dismayed Laos' pro-Western neighbors, Thailand and South Viet Nam. "If Laos goes to the Communists," warned the Bangkok...
...words. After listening to witnesses before his Foreign Relations Committee last week, Arkansas' Fulbright, who has been against U.S. intervention from the start, concluded that the Cuban disaster was a "collective responsibility" of the entire Administration, not just of the CIA. In response to a Castro declaration that Cuba is officially "Socialist," the State Department issued a statement saying that the Castro regime is actually "Communist"-a fact that had long been as plain as the beard on Fidel's face (TIME, July 27, 1959 et seq.). State Secretary Rusk repeated earlier assurances that...
Spending more dollars in Latin America is at best an iffy way of fighting Castro. Are more direct means available to the U.S. for breaking the Communist grip on Cuba? One possibility lies in the Monroe Doctrine-President James Monroe's 1823 warning to "the European powers" that the U.S. would "consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
...Caracas declaration unmistakably applies to Castro's Cuba. But in order to invoke the declaration against Castro, the U.S. must persuade a majority of Latin American nations to agree to take "appropriate action"-or at least endorse such action by the U.S. In trying to get the Caracas declaration translated into action, the U.S. runs smack up against the old, ingrained Latin American taboo against "intervention...