Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Economists doubted that the Russians would deliver. With an estimated $225 billion economy, less than half U.S. size, of which more than $40 billion goes for defense, Russia is already straining to meet heavy obligations to Red China, the European satellites and Cuba. The Reds are also committed to build Egypt's $1 billion Aswan High Dam, have considerable financial agreements with Ghana, Guinea, India, Iraq and Indonesia. While new U.S. overseas aid this year has totaled $3.7 billion, the Russians were able to send only an estimated $475 million in loans, grants and usable credit to non-Communist...
...Cuba's press stood in chains fresh-forged by Fidel Castro. On Formosa, Newspaper Publisher Lei Chen was imprisoned for daring to be critically independent of Chiang Kaishek. Indonesia's President Sukarno commanded editors to swear allegiance to his regime ("Our publication is duty-bound to support guided democracy") or lose their licenses...
...your story about the opinion of some faculty members on the breaking off of diplomatic relations with Cubs (CRIMSON, Jan. 5th) you reported me as being a member of the "Fair Play for Cuba Committee." This is not true. I am not and have not been a member of that organization. Your reporter probably confused the "Fair Play Committee" with the "Committee on Cubs of the Harvard and Radcliffe Liberal Union" with which I was connected untill recently. I would appreciate it if you set the record right...
...unsensational, quiet policy of stopping further deterioration of relations as a preliminary to making a new attempt to discover some ground for accommodation. What the Eisenhower decision did was to put Kennedy in the embarrassing position in which if he wanted to do anything at all about Cuba, he had to start by taking the sensational step of restoring diplomatic relations, a step which can easily be interpreted as going much further than Kennedy would like to and perhaps even should go at this point. You would agree that using the term "unforgivable" in this context sounds much less pretentious...
...Neither Dr. Safran nor Luigi R. Einaudi '87, teaching fellow in Government, has ever been associated with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. The CRIMSON regrets the error contained in yesterday's story...