Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cites Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan, Burma's Ne Win Thai land's Thanom Kittikachorn, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Algeria s Houan Boumedienne, Saigon's Nguyen Cao Ky, France's Charles de Gaulle and such nonprofessional but militaristic figures as Cuba's Fidel Castro and Indonesia's Sukarno...
...national interest came first, as Pentagon Planner Seymour Deitchman points out, "in the use of the atom bomb, the Mexican war, the war with Spain over Cuba, the destruction of American Indian tribal society, failure to support the Hungarian rebellion. We were able to rationalize our moral problems, which were real and recognized, because the political and economic problems were greater and more urgent." Similarly, Kashmir is of national interest to Indians, who believe that its loss would put in jeopardy hundreds of other princely states and consequently imperil India's tenuous union itself. It is also of national...
...least among victims of Fidel Castro's Communism are the many foreign creditors whose claims have been ignored or laughed at by the Cuban government. Some 4,000 claims - totaling well over $1 billion - are pending against Cuba. They have been filed mostly by big rubber, oil and sugar companies whose assets were grabbed by Castro. Their chances of collection? Under present conditions, exactly zero. The firms are blocked by the hoary doctrine of "sovereign immunity...
Typical of their frustration is the case of the Panamanian-based Mayan Line steamship company. Under the 1952 ruling, Mayan went into two U.S. courts in Louisiana with a $668,000 claim against Cuba for unpaid shipping charges, and won uncontested judgments in both. When defectors sailed a Cuban freighter into Norfolk harbor in 1961, Mayan was ready, attached the ship and its cargo of sugar bound for Russia. But the Czech embassy, caretaker for Castro in Washington, invoked sovereign immunity. The State Department assented, and the attachment was thrown out. (Backing up the doctrine was an informal agreement between...
...Castro. They maintain, however, that it works well with friendly countries, which voluntarily pay judgments against them. Says State Department Lawyer Carl Salano: "We believe that the U.S. should not deviate from adherence to domestic and international law just because certain other countries, such as Castro's Cuba, do so." But the doctrine appears ripe for further revision. Switzerland and Italy have dropped all immunity for certain types of commercial activity. Some State Department insiders predict that the U.S. will eventually follow suit...