Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diplomatic matters, Peking emphasized a mood of business as usual. The Soviet Union was attacked with customary stridency. The Chinese officially rejected condolence messages from the Communist parties in Moscow and most of the Soviet-bloc countries, including Cuba and Mongolia. A diatribe against Moscow's policy toward the developing world was entitled "Soviet Quack Medicine Go to Hell." The Chinese also took delight in the defection to the West of MIG-25 Pilot Viktor Belenko (TIME, Sept. 20), cheering that it "put the Soviets in a fix and shamed them into a rage...
Will you finally pay attention to the sufferings of all the Spanish soldiers you murdered in Cuba? How many mistakes have cost massacres...
...ever seen." Kennedy sounded almost as much the cold warrior. The election of 1960, he said, might well determine "whether the world will exist half slave or half free, whether it will move in the direction of freedom ... or in the direction of slavery." Kennedy deplored the "loss of Cuba" to the Communists and foresaw further Communist gains in Indochina. Nixon, colossally wrong as events turned out, claimed that "the civil war" had ended in Indochina and that South Viet Nam was "a strong, free bastion...
...part, Kissinger is worried that the Soviet Union and Cuba might again become actively involved in southern Africa, as they were in Angola. He has recognized, if a bit belatedly, the need for the U.S. to push harder on the white regimes in Africa to recognize black political demands before racial violence engulfs the whole southern third of the continent. Thus he and Vorster are in a position to talk business...
...Along with Cuba, the Communist states attending were Yugoslavia, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos and North Korea...