Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trouble is that there is no quick fix, even granting the greatest imaginable success for Administration policy. Suppose, for example, Nicaragua and Cuba, intimidated by the military maneuvers and the contra campaign, agreed to a verifiable end to their provision of arms and advisers to the Salvadoran guerrillas. There is no doubt that would be a blow to the insurgents: Arquimedes Canadas, once one of their leaders, said last week in Washington that Cuba has "directed the activities" of the Salvadoran insurgents since 1980. Even so, the Salvadoran insurrection may have developed enough momentum by now to continue for years...
Clark's first job in the Administration was deputy to then Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who argued vociferously that the Soviet Union was going to "test" the U.S. in Central America by promoting leftist revolution. Haig went so far as to draw up contingency plans for blockading Cuba to prevent the shipment of Soviet arms from there to Nicaragua and to rebels in El Salvador. He was ordered by the White House to tone down the bellicose talk, and through most of 1982 the region got a relatively low policy priority. But last whiter Clark, by then transferred...
...largest unilateral American exercise in the Caribbean, known as Ocean Venture '82, made waves near Cuba and Grenada with 60 ships, including two carrier groups...
...Since the early 1960s the Navy has occasionally landed as many as 1,800 Marines at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in a show of muscle designed to protect the U.S. claim to its naval base there...
...included 7,500 Marines and four aircraft carriers. The goal was to "liberate" the island from a mythical dictator named Ortsac, which happens to be Castro spelled backward. The following day John Kennedy went on television to reveal that Soviet missiles had secretly been placed in Cuba and that the U.S. ships in the area would set up a "quarantine" of that nation until the missile crisis was resolved...