Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolutionary movements that have the legitimate objective of bettering the life of the hemisphere's poor and downtrodden. At his press conference, the President pointedly exempted any such movements dominated by "external"-meaning Communist-forces, thereby shutting the door on renewed diplomatic relations with Fidel Castro's Cuba...
...there was talk of sending U.S. surplus food stocks to relieve China's problem. But President John Kennedy noted coolly that Peking is still exporting food to Africa and Cuba even in a time of famine, added that "we've had no indication from the Chinese Communists that they would welcome any offer of food...
...immense legacy of unsolved difficulties that the Kennedy Administration has inherited from its predecessor, none seems more hopeless or more maliciously bequeathed than the tangle of Cuba. Much could be and was said of the State Department's mismanagement of its relations with the Castro government, and particularly of the embargo on Cuban sugar. But the Eisenhower Administration's incompetence with respect to Cuba attained new heights when, in its waning days, it no longer had to live with the consequences of its actions, it broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba. Then, in its last week in office, it followed...
...break in diplomatic relations was ill-considered policy, the ban on travel to Cuba is unwarranted imposition on American citizens' liberty. A travel ban is a necessary evil at best imposed for considerations of safety when an area is deemed hazardous for Americans to enter; it should not be a device for using individual citizens as instruments of State Department policy. Whatever may be wrong with Castro and Cuba, American citizens, traveling as tourists or for personal business, are scarcely in any physical danger there. And when the State Department says it will allow some Americans to go to Cuba...
Lifting the travel ban is one "small step" open to Kennedy in restoring a civil relationship between the United States and Cuba. It is a step that ought to be taken, for reasons of citizens' liberty as well as for reasons of foreign policy...