Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forces. Judging by applause, the Legion rated Jack Kennedy as its third choice-behind J. Edgar Hoover and Dick Nixon, who made headlines with a speech proposing a U.S. veto of any future admission of Red China to the United Nations and an economic "quarantine" of Castro's Cuba (next day, as if by prearrangement, the State Department ordered a U.S. embargo on shipments to Cuba-see THE HEMISPHERE...
...week produced other thrusts between the U.S. and Cuba. In Washington, Cuba withdrew from the null Bank. At the U.N., Foreign Minister Raúl Roa asked for immediate consideration of an alleged plot by the "Pentagon and U.S. monopolies" to launch a "large-scale invasion" of Cuba "within the next few days." Roa cited an alleged arms drop on Sept. 29 at 2 a.m. on the slopes of the guerrilla-speckled Escambray hills "by a four-motored aircraft of U.S. registry coming from the U.S. and piloted by U.S. airmen...
...Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal, who for 21 months tried unsuccessfully to practice his expert brand of patient, quiet diplomacy, was recalled to Washington for "an extended period of consultation," leaving U.S. affairs in the hands of Chargé Daniel Braddock. Chances are that Bonsai will not return. With Cuba's Washington embassy also headed by a charge, diplomacy between the two nations will become as difficult as commerce...
...Cuban trade." The Cuban reaction could hardly have been happier. Cheered Havana's El Mundo: "In Canada there does not prevail the aggressive hysteria which blinds the United States." The Castro paper ran a cartoon showing Canada's sturdy arm breaking the "Yankee economic blockade" around Cuba. Added the Cuban embassy in Ottawa: Relations with Canada are "perfect...
Opening to the West. All along, while nationalizing U.S. property, Castro purposefully exempted Canadian holdings, even the five Canadian insurance companies that dominate 70% of Cuba's life-insurance business, with policies valued at $400 million. Two weeks ago, when he added Cuba's banks to the U.S. banks already nationalized, Castro again made an exception, left free only two financial institutions, both Canadian-the Royal Bank of Canada, with 24 branches in Cuba, and the Bank of Nova Scotia, with eight, totaling $100 million in assets. To his TV audience he explained: "All payment transactions are being...