Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poil also stated that although the majority of Americans believe Carter should have handled the brigade issue differently, more respondents now disapprove of full U.S. diplomatic recognition of Cuba. The latest poll says 39 per cent now favor recognition, compared to 47 per cent last month...
...YORK--Although the public disapproves of President Carter's handling of the Soviet brigade in Cuba, concern over that matter has not changed American sentiment about Carter's overall foreign policy, an Associated Press-NBC News poll says...
...responsible for many of its most sensitive--and later embarrassing--covert operations. As chief of the clandestine operations division in the '50s, as a Deputy Director in the early '60s, and finally, from 1966 to 1973, as head of the CIA, Helms' efforts spanned the globe--from Chile to Cuba to the Congo to Southeast Asia to Italy and Eastern Europe, and always, always, to the USSR: anticommunism is the lifeblood of the CIA. In 1977 Helms explained what had worried him most as CIA director--not fighting secret wars, not overturning free elections, not the press, not Watergate...
...many Americans the timing of the ceremonies-even though they were mandated by a treaty that the Senate had passed and President Carter had signed -could not have been worse. The furor at home over the Soviet combat troops in Cuba was an uncomfortable reminder that the Caribbean was no longer an "American lake." Those troops, as well as the leftist tinge of the Cuban-assisted revolution that overthrew Nicaraguan Strongman Anastasio Somoza, raised fears that the canal faced a remote threat...
...replay of the Soviet-troops-in-Cuba affair? Not exactly, but the controversy surrounding new military preparations on the tiny Soviet-held island of Shikotan off the coast of Japan did bear some striking similarities. In Tokyo last week Japan's top defense official, Ganri Yamashita, reported to the Cabinet that over the past year the Soviet Union has deployed up to 12,000 combat troops on Shikotan and two other isles in the southern Kurils, less than twelve miles off Japan's northeastern shore. The division-level force, he said, was equipped with tanks, SAM antiaircraft missiles...