Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOVIET MISSILES IN CUBA. Hardly 18 months later, and certainly as a consequence of U.S. indecision at the Bay of Pigs, the Kennedy Administration again faced the problem of the Sovietization of Cuba, this time in infinitely more dangerous circumstances. Having learned a lesson about opinion, Kennedy did not hesitate to go to the brink to get the Russian missiles out of Cuba; but he gave Khrushchev a face-saving exit through the U.N. decompression chamber. The onlooking world, though nervous, on the whole approved the U.S. action. Kennedy passed up the opportunity of invading Cuba and destroying the Castro...
...million worth of purchases, followed by Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany. The greatest seller is West Germany, whose Eastern exports last year jumped 20% to $656 million. Second and third among traders with Communist nations: Britain and Italy. Japan and Spain are the leading non-Communist dealers with Cuba...
...could continue to enumerate for you all the aspects of the miserable life implanted in Cuba by Communism, but I would make this letter interminable...
...Nkrumah, who had hoped to use the conference to promote his own grandiose plans to entertain the chiefs of state of all African nations at the Organization of African Unity meeting in September, the whole affair approached disaster. Although such notable Afro-Asian lands as Cuba and Cyprus sent representatives to Winneba, the conference was pointedly ignored by all of Nkrumah's neighbors, and most of Africa's moderate states dis trust him. There was, in fact, only one redeeming event: to mark the conference opening Nkrumah unveiled a 75-ft. monument of himself. The work...
...took a bold step, one fraught with difficulties and even dangers, but he had the same solid reason of which Mr. Kennedy spoke -the security of our nation." Agreed the Chicago Daily News: "The Dominican rebellion forced President Johnson to decide whether the Western Hemisphere was threatened by another Cuba. He decided it was. Let those who did not have his information or responsibility decide that he was wrong; that is the luxury of the spectator...