Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rockets for What? Such U.S. actions only seemed to increase the Cuban hysteria. Touring Russia. Carlos Franqui, editor of Castro's Revolución, begged Khrushchev to repeat his promise of Russian rockets to protect Cuba. Said Khrushchev noncommittally: "I want that declaration to be, in effect, symbolic." Insisted Franqui: "Are the rockets ready?" The real question was: Ready for what...
...Cuban cries of aggression dinned louder, the U.S. State Department injected another possibility: that Castro might be preparing an invasion of his own against some neighboring country. To the Organization of American States went a U.S. warning that thousands of tons of Communist arms had been recently unloaded in Cuba, "expanding rapidly its capacity to give armed support to the spread of its revolution to other parts of the Americas." The U.S. asked the OAS to investigate promptly...
...besides being highly trained, is a natural leader." By contrast, Nixon is "an indecisive man who lacks that inner conviction and self-confidence which are the marks of the natural leader." Last week, on the question of how the U.S. should treat Castro's Cuba, Lippmann dolefully disagreed with Kennedy's solution, nonetheless declared Nixon's both "false and insincere." On Quemoy-Matsu. Nixon has simply been "slanderous" toward Kennedy...
...expropriated; the rest are under government yoke. For uncensored news a growing number of Cubans this week were listening to an underground voice from the distance: a Cuban press-in-exile composed of three formerly leading Havana dailies, now written in Miami by refugee newsmen and smuggled back into Cuba through ingenious clandestine channels...
...Diario de la Marina claims quick distribution, parachuting weekly copies from planes which must not only evade U.S. patrols but the Cuban air force too. Diario, reputedly the oldest Spanish-language paper in the hemisphere, is dropped into Cuba two days after publication in a 12-in. by 6-in. packet, tightly folded so as to resist the wind. About 5.000 copies of the two-color, 20-24 page tabloid are sold in Miami; 2,500 go to Cuba by parachute and other means as the gift of Editor José Ignacio Rivero and the twelve-man staff who fled...