Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nations of the Western Hemisphere that have boycotted Fidel Castro's Cuba for the past decade have been having second thoughts. In the past two years, official ties have been forged between Cuba and Peru, Argentina, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad-Tobago.* Last week Panama was added to the list when 30 jubilant Panamanian officials flew to Havana to sign a declaration restoring diplomatic, economic and cultural links between the two nations. Next in line are Ecuador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia-and probably...
...Gray "to lay off' his investigation of the Watergate burglary money. Nixon suggested that Haldeman could claim that "the President believes" that such an investigation would "open the whole Bay of Pigs thing up again" (as a CIA agent, Hunt had helped organize the disastrous 1961 invasion of Cuba), and that the CIA officials "should call the FBI in" and tell Gray, "Don't go any further into this case, period...
...just say (unintelligible) very bad to have this fellow Hunt, ah, he knows too damned much, if he was involved-you happen to know that? If it gets out that this is all involved, the Cuba thing, it would be a fiasco. It would make the CIA look bad, it's going to make Hunt look bad, and it is likely to blow the whole Bay of Pigs thing, which we think would be very unfortunate-both for [the] CIA, and for the country, at this time, and for American foreign policy. Just tell him [presumably FBI Director Gray...
...Nixon policy of neglect, President Ford would do well to continue the renewal of U.S. attention haltingly begun by Kissinger in the past six months. Additionally, Ford will soon have to make a decision that Nixon avoided: whether to take a leading role in bringing an increasingly prosperous Cuba back into the American community, or stand by while Latin American states re-establish diplomatic relations with Havana one by one on their own. Nixon had shied away from recognition of Cuba after Southern Senators, his mam support in the Senate, strongly opposed rapprochement with the Communist island...
Died. José Miró Cardona, 71, shrewd, fence-straddling Cuban criminal lawyer who fled Batista's regime to Miami in 1958, served briefly in 1959 as Cuba's first Prime Minister after Castro's revolution, then fell out ideologically with his boss and returned to the U.S., where he headed the Cuban Revolution Council, before clashing with President Kennedy and settling in Puerto Rico as a law professor; of a heart attack; in San Juan...