Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still in high school when World War II ended, but he was an Associated Press reporter in Buenos Aires in 1955 when Perón was overthrown. Later, as TIME's man in the Caribbean, he covered the fall of Batista and the emergence of Castro in Cuba...
...just as brutal; in 15 short years under leaders like Simón Bolivar, José de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins, the American colonies threw off Spanish dominance and established their independence. Unlike Britain, Spain found no new worlds to conquer. The final humiliating ejection from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines by the U.S. in 1898 sank Spain into doldrums of defeatism and economic stagnation that lasted for a generation...
...waiting, the hoping, the praying was ended for a fortunate few in the crowd. A Pan American DC-7 taxied up the ramp after a 60-minute hop from the onetime Cuban resort town of Varadero, carrying the first planeload of refugees to leave Cuba under last month's air-evacuation agreement. Aboard were 75 passengers -15 men, 31 women, 29 children. Before the week was out, another 187 had been flown over to join the 5,000 Cubans who journeyed across by sea in the two months since Castro suddenly decided to let his people...
...government singlehandedly), and there are bits of information about the less exalted that illustrate just how closely Washington was tied to Cambridge for those three years. When, at the time of the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Revolutionary Council needed a manifesto of its intention for a non-Communist Cuba, John Planck, former professor of Government, and William Barnes, assistant dean of the Law School, were asked to provide suggestions. When a dangerously hard-line Berlin policy seemed to be taking hold in 1961, a Harvard all-star team moved in. On the diplomatic front, "Abram Chayes, Carl Kaysen...
Cold war politics today make some boycotts impractical or ineffective. Placed under sanctions by Russia, Yugoslavia received aid from the West; Cuba, in the face of U.S. sanctions, got help from the East. Red China has been able to buy from Western nations despite a U.S. embargo. The Israeli-Arab standoff is a joke, since neither has markets to interest the other, and both sides in the cold war trade with each country. Indeed, the only really successful postwar sanction was the 28-day naval blockade that the U.S. threw around Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. It was totally...