Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beneficent Intuition. Fully aware that another Communist island fortress, like Cuba, could sprout in the Caribbean, the President snapped into action at the first sporadic crackles of gunfire in Santo Domingo. Into the waters off the Dominican Republic, he ordered a task force of six ships carrying an assault detachment of 1,800 marines; as a contingency, he alerted Army airborne troops at Fort Bragg...
...terrified U.S. citizens and other foreign nationals after U.S. Ambassador William Tapley Bennett Jr. had informed Washington that Dominican authorities wanted U.S. help, that they could no longer guarantee the safety of American lives. In a much larger sense, the troops were there quite simply to prevent another Cuba in the Caribbean. What had happened, in its baldest terms, was an attempt by highly trained Castro-Communist agitators and their followers to turn an abortive comeback by a deposed Dominican President into a "war of national liberation...
President Johnson weighed the possible damage to U.S. prestige and to the Alliance for Progress, huddling with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, CIA Boss William Raborn. As the situation grew more alarming by the hour, he snapped: "I will not have another Cuba in the Caribbean." At last orders went out to Task Force 124, centered on the aircraft carrier Boxer and with 1,800 combat-ready marines, to make flank speed for Santo Domingo. Another set of orders started the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg, N.C., toward its C124 and C-130 transports...
...Argentine was talking directly to Fidel Castro. The 1962 missile confrontation may have taken Russian IRBMs out of Cuba?or so the U.S. believes?but it did nothing to halt Castro's campaign of subversion around the hemisphere. According to U.S. intelligence, Cuban training schools turn out more than 1,500 American graduates each year as guerrilla cadres. Venezuela's army has been chasing them through the interior without notable success. Colombia's even more expert army no sooner cleaned out the country's bandits than a pair of Castro-style guerrilla bands cropped...
...should have suggested to Johnson that the CIA is occasionally inaccurate. Judging from New York Times reports, there was a good chance that the non-Communist pro-Bosch forces would have been able to win. Yet Johnson was in no mood to wager on the Dominican Republic becoming another Cuba. That is why he intervened...