Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Findley's amendment was approved by Congress. Nonetheless, Administration bridge building will be more seriously crimped in future by yet another amendment attached to the bill extending the Food-for-Peace program. It prohibits the shipment of bargain U.S. food to any nation that sells strategic materials to Cuba. Yugoslavia sends Castro goods ranging from truck tires to machinery. And, in fact, the U.S. is no longer in a position to dispense vast agricultural surpluses around the world. The Department of Agriculture estimates that wheat supplies on hand next July-before the new crop is harvested-will...
...like to ask you another question of particular interest to Americans. What do you think is the present influence of Cuba and Fidelismo in Latin America...
Last week, after a special plea from Mexico, the only Latin American country that still maintains relations with Cuba, Castro finally agreed to let the "Americans" and 1,800 of their relatives leave. The first planeloads flew out to Merida on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, then on to New Orleans in a chartered Pan American Boeing...
...action may well have signaled a mild easing of tensions between the two countries. There have also been other signs of a thaw. Though the U.S.'s six-year-old trade embargo remains in effect, Washington recently modified its ban on travel to Cuba and announced that U.S. citizens may now get passports to visit the island for "cultural" and business reasons-provided that the Czechoslovakian embassy, Castro's diplomatic go-between in the U.S., agrees to issue a visa...
...elite anti-guerrilla units to sweep the countryside. At the town of San José de Guaribe, 90 miles southeast of Caracas, an army patrol flushed a FALN force and killed a rebel leader known as Comandante Behuma, who only recently has returned from terrorist training in Cuba...