Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human needs. His pronouncements on the need for new diplomatic vigor in Western Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America were based on the assumption of a U.S. lag and his ability to recreate the atmosphere of F.D.R.'s Good Neighbor policy. But the specifics of foreign policy-on Cuba as on Quemoy-had raised many hackles and some doubts...
...peas, carrots and apples disappeared from Havana markets, newspapers took a second cut from twelve pages daily to ten, and government TV stations in Havana shrank to two. A year ago Havana had six. Inevitably, the dictatorship is losing some popular support. At the peak, Castro had 90% of Cuba's people with him; the figure today is estimated at around 50%. One top underground leader told friends he no longer worried that servants would betray him. Cubans who used to dismiss the Communism charges as right-wing American propaganda are beginning to wake up. A shudder of fear...
...List. So great was the rush to leave Cuba that the party-lining National Confederation of University Professionals scheduled a mass meeting to make members publicly swear to stay. The government has reportedly drawn up a list of engineers, petroleum specialists, executives to be halted at the airport...
...modern force of at least 6,000 men, well-trained in combined operations on land, sea and air, or else it will be thrown back into the sea." Starting in Castro's first week in power, 21 months of frantic arms buying has funneled enough military hardware into Cuba to equip no fewer than nine light divisions of 7,500 men each, give Cuba more firepower than has ever been seen in the Caribbean...
When asked to comment on Cuba, Morgenthau replied. "What do you want to say? I am sorry it happened...