Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those of us who remain in Cuba could not have more wants... Food and clothing are rationed and can only be bought in minimal quantities with the Ration Book. Fresh milk and poultry are only sold to children and aged people, and many days they are not sold. Many people, especially children, walk barefooted on the streets because there are no shoes at shoe stores or because they have torn the only pair they are given for six months. To see someone wearing a coat and tie is a rare thing...
...nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States however reluctantly ... to the exercise of an international police power " Teddy's was the Big Stick. In 1903 after the U.S. had kicked the Spaniards out of Cuba and supported Panama's revolt against Colombia because of Washington's interest in an isthmian canal, Roosevelt signed treaties with Cuba and Panama providing for U.S intervention to protect the fledgling republics' independence. But T.R.'s successors also invoked the corollary. In 1909 when Nicaragua erupted...
...cited-but the remedy remained a "Meeting of Consultation." OAS meetings have never in the past been known for swift or decisive action. In more than six years of blatant Castro subversion-by-export, the OAS has had scores of meetings' managed at most to suspend trade with Cuba except for food and medicine, and bar diplomatic relations with Havana (Mexico has ignored the latter...
Louis Zemel, a Connecticut ski-resort operator, wanted to go to Cuba in 1962 "to make me a better-informed citizen." The State Department refused to put the necessary endorsement on his passport. Last week, in a decision that surprised many libertarians, the Supreme Court sided with the State Department...
Warren ruled nonetheless that in granting presidential power in "explosive" foreign relations, "Congress must of necessity paint with a brush broader than it customarily wields in domestic areas." The stage is now set for a problem the court left open: Government prosecution of 150 U.S."students who illegally visited Cuba in 1963 and 1964. If convicted, they may face five years' imprisonment and $5,000 fines...