Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond the reach of the Soviet army, only two nations have in effect volunteered themselves into the Moscow orbit, Viet Nam and Cuba. The presence of a Cuban ally so close to American shores tempted Nikita Khrushchev to install missiles there in 1962. The dramatic confrontation of the Cuban missile crisis ended with Khrushchev's backing down, hastening his own downfall and spurring the humiliated Soviet leadership into a costly arms buildup. As for Castro, his first attempts to spread his revolution through Latin America were rebuffed, but now he is trying again in Central America...
...Kennedy, the time of truth arrived when he received sheaves of photographs taken during the preceding few days by U.S. reconnaissance planes over Cuba. They furnished staggering proof of a massive, breakneck buildup of Soviet missile power on Castro's island. Already poised were missiles capable of hurling a megaton each-or roughly 50 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb-at the U.S. Under construction were sites for launching five-megaton missiles...
Williams described the conflict between the United States and Zimbabwe as stemming from the United States's disapproval of "Namibia's accepting aid from Marxist Cuba" Contrary to what Williams writes, Namibia does not receive aid from Cuba. It is, instead, controlled militarily and economically by South Africa...
McGovern's "New Realism" platform retained the liberal and antiwar tone of his 1972 campaign. Its major planks: a call to arms control, an end to U.S. military involvement in Central America and improved relations with Cuba. Commented Los Angeles Attorney and Democratic Strategist Mickey Kantor: "He is a decent bright man, but he is tilting at windmills that no longer exist...
...seemed oddly bland, he knew that the stakes are high in the Honduran war games. For one thing, the Big Pine exercises are taking place next door to revolutionary Nicaragua, a country the Reagan Administration considers to be a dangerous Marxist-Leninist force in the hemisphere, with ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union. For another, El Salvador is also in the neighborhood, and although the Administration has consistently ruled out the possibility of sending U.S. troops to fight leftist guerrillas there, American advisers in Honduras have begun training Salvadoran soldiers for the job. As much as anything else...