Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jamaica has many friends. One of them is Cuba. Your coupling of Jamaica with Cuba shows up a paranoia about our country asserting its sovereign right to choose its own friends...
Died. William D. Pawley, 80, financier, philanthropist and a former ambassador and special envoy to several Latin American countries; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Sunset Island, Fla. Pawley disclosed in the 1960s that President Eisenhower had sent him to Cuba in the final weeks of the Batista regime in an effort to persuade the dictator to abdicate in favor of a caretaker government. Batista refused, and Fidel Castro took control of the country...
...Russian role in Peru continues to worry Washington, even though Lima has taken a definite turn to the right in the past year. Peru is still $500 million in hock to Moscow, and Peruvian pilots have been receiving flight training in Cuba from Soviet advisers...
...from a serious idea-in this case one with historical foundation. In 1939, as part of a propaganda effort, the Nazis bundled Jews from all levels of German life, privileged to deprived, onto a Hamburg-Amerika liner, the St. Louis. The ship was bound out of Hamburg to Havana, Cuba, where the passengers understood they could disembark if they chose. Once in Havana harbor, however, the Jews were not allowed off the ship. Their landing permits had been deliberately scrambled by the Cuban government in league with the Nazis, who wanted the ship to sail from port to port searching...
These claims are large. Of major flashpoints in the present world, the United States has more unilateral responsibility for the Korean one than we have for any other anywhere unless Cuba be excepted. One reason why we have made--and still make--so many costly mistakes in Korea is that we have had such meagre knowledge or understanding of the place. Harvard's efforts to improve a situation of scandalous ignorance were commendable--even, for modern Korea, overdue...