Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When we think about Central America, we should remember Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Cuba, Southeast Asia and Afghanistan. As a 22-year-old who is planning to join the Navy, I say it is time America used the "big stick" to stop the spread of Communism...
...mission specialist aboard ST58 who will launch the satellite from the shuttle's payload bay is Air Force Lieut. Colonel Guion (Guy) S. Bluford Jr., 40, America's first black astronaut, though not the first black in space. That distinction belongs to Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez of Cuba, who was sent aloft with Soviet cosmonauts in 1980. Other members of the crew: Navy Captain Richard Truly, the flight commander, flying his second shuttle mission; Navy Commander Daniel C. Brandenstein, the Challenger's pilot; Navy Lieut. Commander Dale Gardner, who will help deploy the Indian satellite; and Physician William...
...debate on extension of the Voting Rights Act, he was stunningly effective at arguing for preservation of the bilingual provisions by speaking Spanish on the floor. Leland has also attracted national attention for his four meetings with Fidel Castro, which resulted in the release of Texans being held in Cuba on various charges...
John Kennedy agreed to remove from Europe forerunners of the Pershing II, while Nikita Khrushchev removed from Cuba the forerunners of the SS-20. That exchange was largely cosmetic. The U.S. had been planning to pull its missiles out of Europe anyway, for its own political and military reasons, while Khrushchev had tried to introduce his missiles in Cuba and, naturally, had intended to leave them there...
...most famous remarks of superpower brinkmanship, Dean Rusk remarked, as Soviet ships steamed home from Cuba with the rockets on their decks, "We're eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked." In negotiating the understanding that ended the crisis, Andrei Gromyko's deputy, Vasily Kuznetsov, said sternly to his American counterpart, John McCloy, "You Americans will never be able to do this to us again." It was largely the humiliation of that episode that impelled the Soviet Union to undertake its 20-year buildup, of which the SS-20 program is one of the most troublesome...