Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sport Exchange. Castro also said that 1) former President Nixon had "a personal hostility against Cuba," but that President Ford does not; 2) the CIA had organized and subsidized numerous assassination plots against him; 3) it would have been "absurd, irresponsible, crazy-and a very dangerous measure" for Cuba to have plotted the assassination of John F. Kennedy, as some theorists have suggested; 4) the OAS, "which has had a sad role as an instrument of U.S. domination," was no longer trustworthy or useful...
...city, proposed that one starting point for bettering relations might be an exchange of baseball and basketball teams between the two countries-a suggestion the Cuban Premier immediately embraced. Added McGovern: "The embargo is foolish and self-defeating. The sooner we lift it the better. The next move where Cuba is concerned is up to the U.S." At week's end White House officials said that they welcomed Castro's conciliatory remarks, but that a formal lifting of diplomatic and trade curbs would have to await action...
...Republican Jacob Javits of New York and Rhode Island Democrat Claiborne Pell visited Cuba last September. Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy is planning to go in June...
...vital interest in the independence of the countries of North America and the Caribbean, of Western Europe and Japan. Even within the North American citadel, however, we have seen a country "go Communist," Cuba, without lethal consequences to our security...
...probably made a mistake in Viet Nam to turn Viet Nam into a test case for our policy." He intimated that the U.S. may recognize the government of North Viet Nam before long, and he disclosed that the U.S. has made a number of recent diplomatic overtures to Cuba. With some heat, he denied reports that he was about to resign: "To leave in a period of turmoil, when people are looking for a sense of direction and when foreign nations are watching us-I think it would not be a service to the country...