Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THROUGHOUT the 1960s, peace among Russia, China and the U.S. was maintained by a kind of equilibrium of hostility. Moscow and Peking were at sword's point from the early days of the decade; Moscow and Washington came close to conflict over Berlin and Cuba, though they pulled back on both occasions; Washington and Peking were on frigid terms for most of the decade and were not even talking to each other during its last two years. In the dawning days of the 1970s, however, the three powers are at the threshold of a series of bilateral talks that...
...condition for democracy and prosperity. The agrarians, between 1860 and 1893, coherently argued that such expansion "extended the freedom of all men." Their conception was adopted by industrialists in the crisis of 1893. Typical of agrarian expansionism was The Prairie Farmer's demand to Congress in 1898: open up Cuba for trade and establish "peace and sound government" there. The principle of intervention in the name of freedom was now an integral part of U.S. foreign policy...