Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CUBA. Hours after a parade of his new Soviet tanks and artillery. Dictator Fidel Castro suddenly confronted the U.S. with a blunt and drastic demand: within 48 hours, the U.S. had to reduce its embassy and consulate staffs in Cuba to a total of eleven persons (the embassy staff alone totaled 87 U.S. citizens, plus 120 Cuban employees). President Eisenhower held an 8:30 a.m. meeting with top military and foreign-policy advisers, decided to break off diplomatic relations immediately. "There is a limit to what the United States in self-respect can endure," said the President. "That limit...
...Virgin Lands. Two days later Khrushchev appeared at a Cuban embassy reception to read another piece of paper-mostly about the Soviet Union's desire for peace in places like the Congo, Laos, Cuba. Khrushchev roared with laughter as Mikoyan started shouting "Cuba da, Yankee nyet!" Asked by reporters about the 1960 harvest, which is thought in the West to have lagged 20% below plans, Khrushchev said, "It was not as bad as the previous year," but still left room for improvement. "That explains the reorganization of the Virgin Lands," he volunteered, and dropped the first word that tubby...
...broken leg was held up piteously to the scurrying U.S. staff workers inside. "But you are the humane people! You are the humane people!" a woman pleaded, grabbing a U.S. consular official as government photographers stood near snapping pictures of those who wanted to flee Castro's Cuba...
Ending the Line-Up. The latest provocation began with Cuba's wild and unsupported charge, placed before the United Nations Security Council, that the U.S. was "about to perpetrate, within a few hours, direct military aggression against the government and people of Cuba." Then, as Castro reviewed 100,000 militiamen in Havana and harangued the crowd celebrating his second anniversary in power, a bomb exploded near by. Raging that those responsible "received the splendid money with which the United States embassy paid for terrorism." Castro said that he would put a stop to the "swarm of Central Intelligence Service...
...gravest embarrassments to the dictatorship was the daily line-up of desperate Cubans before the embassy seeking U.S. visas to flee his Communist state. As of last week, 52,000 applications were on file. And once again he needed a new crisis to distract Cuba's attention from the growing failures of his Marxist revolution...