Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy sounds good on television, and wants a fifth debate. Nixon has found his opponents over-whelmingly weak spot in the issue of Cuba, and will accept another debate if he can be sure Cuba will be the topic. Stir into this frenetic brew of telegrams Kennedy's assertion that the vice-President is "afraid" to debate with him and Nixon's statement that such an assertion is "sophomoric" and the lurch toward a fifth debate grows overpowering in its momentum...
...another debate is really to talk about Cuba, aand perhaps about Quemoy and Matsu as well, it is likely to give not only NATO but also the State Department a good deal of unnecessary anguish. Neither body wants to see men not in a position to make policy decision doing exactly that, and both resent seeing their best-laid plans destroyed with a few words to a television audience...
...fifth debate should not take place: neither Nixon or Kennedy are likely to make any new points at all, and if they make any more about Cuba or Quemoy-Matsu they will be forming antagonisms, not policies...
Castro's capture of the 200-odd oppositionists will hurt but will probably not destroy anti-Castro resistance in Cuba. For nearly a year, disillusioned rebels have been drifting back to the hills. They are still unorganized, have no unified chain of command. But last week 500 to 800 men were still in the Escambray, operating in loose guerrilla fashion. And there are other, smaller groups in Pinar del Rio, in Matanzas and in Las Villas provinces...
...troubles increased, the U.S. pondered ways to put a crimp in the Castro war machine. The U.S. plans an embargo on certain exports, in the name of "economic self-defense." Specifically, the U.S. is increasingly concerned at the vast arms depots (mostly from Belgium and Czechoslovakia) collecting in Cuba, far more than necessary for the island's own self-defense. It therefore wants to limit Cuba's access to such paramilitary items as auto and aircraft parts, tires, tools, special chemicals, oil-cracking catalysts, etc. It will not issue a blanket embargo (food and medicines will be exempt...