Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vent your spleen? (I vent mine on occasion by writing letters to editors.) I do not think that it helps to ease international tensions, no matter if it graphically presents an essential truth. Furthermore, I seriously question your judgment when you say, "Khrushchev was reduced to chumming around with Cuba's Fidel Castro, and such enthusiastic courtship of Castro seemed a petty pursuit for so great a power." Would it be petty if Russia set up its technicians in Cuba, made it a real base of subversive activity in the Americas? Would it be petty if Khrushchev could persuade...
This arrest is a despotic move by the Chiang Kai-shek government to suppress freedom of speech and to abuse basic human rights. It is despotism such as this that fomented the tragedy of Cuba and the China mainland...
...Cuba. Nixon disputed Kennedy's claim that Cuba is "lost," defended the Administration's Latin American policy. "There were eleven dictators in South America and in Central America when we came in in 1953; today there are only three left, including the one in Cuba." He accused Kennedy of "defeatist talk," declared flatly that "there isn't any question but that we will defend Guantánamo [the U.S. Navy base in Cuba] if it is attacked." Kennedy's riposte: "We have almost ignored the needs of Latin America; we have beamed not a single Voice...
...Oregon statement of last May, when he said that the U.S. might have apologized to Khrushchev if it would have saved the summit and accused Nixon of distorting his views. He cited past incidents when, as a matter of "accepted procedure," the U.S. expressed regrets for accidental overflights in Cuba, Russia, and East Germany. A month ago, said Kennedy, Cabot Lodge "said that if there was ever a case where we did not have the law on our side, it was in the U-2 incident." Replied Nixon: Kennedy was wrong to expect that Khrushchev might have continued with...
...Serantes, spoke for all in a new pastoral letter read in Oriente province. "How many Communists did for the revolution as much as our own did?" he asked his people. "Must we suffer tamely and silently having these now come and give lessons in patriotism to heroes? Cuba, Yes; Communism...