Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avance, shuttered by the regime in January, prints 10,000 copies of a 6-in. by 9-in. miniature of a handsome, slick-paper tabloid, which are sneaked into Cuba by volunteer travelers, fishing boats, and roundabout from South America and Europe through unwatched commercial mails. Editor Jorge Zayas, aggressive heir to a publishing dynasty and grandson of a former President of Cuba, plans to add Miami social notes to the paper's steady diet of Cuban colony news. Although an estimated 7,500 copies of Avance reach Cuba every week (at least 2,500 are confiscated or dumped...
Speaking before the Committee on Cuba of the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union, Bundy attacked the position of the group regarding the United States relations with the Castro regime, as put forth in a policy paper issued last week...
Luigi R. Einaudi '57, teaching fellow in Government, warned that failure by the United States to completely divorce itself from any invasion of Cuba, could in the future, involve the U.S. against its will in an armed conflict. He espoused the Liberal Union's view that the U.S. should "open the channel of negotiation," and begin by discussing the fate of the Guantanamo Bay naval base. Bundy declared this topic was not a good one, and that the current state of affairs made the present a "poor time" for debate...
These cold war criteria of judging nations, Hughes charged, have resulted in an "either-or mentality," Kennedy, be pointed out, has written off Ghana, Guinea, and Cuba to the Russians, forgetting that those countries are far more interested in the welfare of their people than in choosing sides of the cold...
...case of Cuba, Hughes pointed out that the Castro government has done a great deal more than the previous one in working for the welfare of the people. He added that the Cuban experiment may be positively popular in South America, and by considering Cuba our enemy, we may be losing a great many friends...