Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important part of Soviet foreign policy these days floats to the outside world on a thick black tide of oozing oil. Russian oil salesmen with barter deals in their briefcases stride the sidewalks of Beirut, Colombo and Tokyo. Earnest technicians from Moscow probe the earth in India, Ghana, Cuba and Pakistan to help the locals find petroleum of their own. Fat tankers chug out of the Black Sea toward a score of nations already signed up at bargain-basement prices for Commilube, the fuel of friendship...
This was the doctrine that Adolf A. Berle, chief of Kennedy's Latin American task force, spread on his recent South American swing. Specifically, Berle sought to line up support for a collective diplomatic and commercial quarantine of Cuba by all members of the Organization of American States. In Brazil Berle ran into a personal affront from President Janio Quadros (see below), who is aggressively determined to show how neutral he intends Brazil to be in international affairs. When Latin America's biggest nation refused to line up with the U.S. against Castro, the prospect of others doing...
...sounded like genuine alarm. The U.S., charged Roa, is giving all-out support to a new drive by anti-Castro Cubans to throw Castro out be fore the conference of American foreign ministers in Quito May 24. If that fails, Roa said, U.S. -supported anti-Castro forces would invade Cuba with the intention of setting up in a liberated section of the country a provisional government that could be recognized by the U.S. and given open support...
...Communism. Said he: "There is one basic difference between capital exported to underdeveloped countries from the U.S. and from Russia. American capital is no danger to democracy. Russian capital brings with it Communism, which is the end of democracy." And he added an outspoken warning about Castro's Cuba: "Let us keep in mind the experience of a sister nation that, oppressed by tyranny, revolted and raised the flag of justice. But after victory, the people wound up exchanging one tyrant for another...
...James Leonard Hanberry, 86, the last survivor of Dr. Walter Reed's 1901 yellow-fever experiment, which proved the theory that the scourge was carried by mosquitoes and not through miasmic air; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Columbia, S.C. A lanky, 25-year-old U.S. Army private stationed in Cuba's Columbia Barracks, Hanberry spent 20 nights in a screened hut, sleeping in the clothing of dead yellow-fever victims without catching the disease, was moved to another isolated shack, where he was exposed to an Aedes aegypti mosquito, which bit him on the knuckles of his right hand...