Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Roads. Now there are three roads open to Kennedy. He could pick an able man from the second echelon of Latin American experts (such as Ambassador to Brazil John Moors Cabot or ex-Ambassador to Cuba Philip Bonsai) and build him up to first rank by going to great personal lengths to stress the importance of both man and job. He could reach outside the ranks of Latin American specialists for a big name that would by itself prove the importance he attaches to the job. Or he could agree to Berle's terms...
Most startling of Trujillo's moves to the left is his sudden about-face on Fidel Castro, who two years ago sent revolutionaries to invade the Dominican Republic. Two months ago Trujillo reportedly sent a pair of trusted henchmen to a secret meeting in eastern Cuba with Castro emissaries. The result: a tentative non-aggression agreement between the two dictators and, further, possible future cooperation against common enemies, such as Venezuela's moderate President Romulo Betancourt...
This national inconsistency reaches outside continental borders. The U.S. refused to recognize Red China, and withdraws an embassy from Cuba, because it does not approve the routes these governments followed in gaining power. The State Department speaks of diplomatic liaisons as Seals of Approval granted only to well-behaved foreigners. Yet Chiang and Franco, and until recently Batista, Rhee, and Peron, gobble up dollars and throw their oppositions into jail without trial--or worse...
...Canada's growing spirit of economic nationalism, the Diefenbaker government's solution is to clip the U.S. eagle's tail feathers and declare economic independence. To the embarrassment-and distress-of the U.S., Canadian businessmen scrambled after trade with the Communist regime in Cuba, stayed strictly neutral in the politics and the battle. And then there is the Canadian government's year-end emergency budget, which promised a boost for Canadian business at the expense of U.S. capital investors. To Canadian enterprises went $60 million worth of tax concessions designed to prime Canadian investment at home...
...Hope Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Filmed portions of Hope's annual holiday-season tour of U.S. military bases, including a Christmas Day segment from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...