Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Political experts at Harvard yesterday said President Carter's Monday night address on Soviet military presence in Cuba will have little effect on the Senate ratification of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) treaty or the military balance in the Caribbean...
...course Cuba is a fortress, and of course it is reinforced by the Soviets. It has been so for decades. There is legitimate, longstanding concern over the island's use as a training ground for Soviet-Cuban adventures in the Third World, including the Caribbean. But Castro's reprehensible conduct as a global mischief-maker bedeviled American foreign policy long before the ratification of SALT II or the re-election of Frank Church was an issue. Cuba's predatory military probably will continue to be a problem for a long time to come - until the U.S. recovers...
Even Cyrus Vance, in his attempt to pre-empt his critics, has called the presence of the brigade "a very serious matter" and said that the Administration "will not be satisfied with the status quo." Thus Vance contributed to the misimpression that the Soviet military presence in Cuba has been steadily and ominously growing...
...fact, that presence seems to have remained fairly steady since the mid-1960s - as has the U.S. military presence in Cuba, in the form of the large U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo...
...distrust of the State Department led to secret missions to Peking and Moscow and the subtle nuances of conducting simultaneous summitry with the Soviets and Chinese. Included is a section remarkably a propos today: what the U.S. did when the Soviets tried to build a nuclear submarine base in Cuba in 1970. The entire second excerpt concerns what Kissinger caUs the agony of Viet Nam": the unannounced bombing of Cambodia and the attack on the sanctuaries there; the secret negotiations in Paris-how the premature "peace is at hand" statement came to be made; the Christmas bombing; the turmoil caused...