Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find a rhythm of its own. Often a story starts the week as an event of modest consequence and then unfolds into a major national controversy - and a cover story. So it went last week, as concern over the discovery of up to 3,000 Soviet combat troops in Cuba grew so intense that it threatened ratification of the SALT II agreement, strained U.S.-Soviet relations, and presented the President with a substantial diplomatic dilemma. Observes Otto Friedrich, senior editor in charge of Nation: "When U.S. Senators are saying, 'Get out or no SALT,' you have a problem...
...Cuban capital. "Every morning I went jogging and passed groups of young Russian men," he says. "When I greeted them in Russian, they looked surprised, but usually returned a friendly word or two." Also reporting for the story was Economics Correspondent George Taber, who had been in Cuba only a month earlier for a firsthand look at the country's economy...
...days later, as the tempest grew, Jimmy Carter took to television, both to endorse the Vance warning and to call for "calm and a sense of proportion." Said the President: "We consider the presence of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba to be a very serious matter and that this status quo is not acceptable." In the terse five-minute statement, Carter confirmed that "we are seriously pursuing this issue with the Soviet Union." But the Soviet force, he stressed, is not an assault force and does not have the capability to attack the U.S. Concluded the President: "This...
...with minimum strain?had escalated into a major domestic political issue, strained U.S.-Soviet relations and endangered SALT II. Gloated Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, an avowed SALT foe: "Unless I have misread the mood of my colleagues, SALT II is dead unless those Soviet troops are taken out of Cuba...
...closing speech, Cuban premier Fidel Castro, the leader of the movement for the next three years, said his leadership during the conference was "not to benefit Cuba...