Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration official, referring to the danger of war between Nicaragua and Honduras. "If you had 15,000 to 20,000 Cuban troops in Nicaragua, you might do something bold." That unsettling possibility certainly seemed remote enough, but late last week TIME learned of the recent arrival in Managua of Cuba's General Arnaldo Ochoa, Castro's leading specialist in expeditionary forces. "This," says an Administration aide, "is ominous. It worries the hell...
...released represent only about 5 percent of the tapes stored the Kennedy Library officials say that they have not yet decided when more tapes will be transcribed and what subjects they will cover Logs indicate that about 75 percent of the discussions deal with foreign policy questions-such as Cuba and Vietnam-and nuclear weaponry These must get clearance from the National Security Council before they can be made public...
...difficult to imagine just what it was. The CIA has hatched farfetched assassination plots before, most famously the exploding cigar meant for Cuba's Fidel Castro. But harming D'Escoto would not make sense. The Foreign Minister, who often travels abroad to dispense the Sandinista line, is derided even by comrades as "the Flying Nun." He wields no real power within the government, and his overwrought rhetoric sometimes drives away potential supporters. "D'Escoto is the man who loses a friend a day for Nicaragua," said a State Department official. "Why should we eliminate him?" Declared Secretary...
...NATO military umbrella can negotiate with Communists. But it is very difficult to coexist with Communism in a Latin context. We are a fragile democracy. Can we exist with a Soviet base in the region? We would be facing a superpower, the Soviet Union, through its surrogates, Nicaragua and Cuba. If Nicaragua had a Nicaraguan type of Communism, this would be a different situation...
...mistake of spurning Cuba's constant offers to negotiate whatever the United States wants to discuss frustrates the forces in Cuba desiring greater internal flexibility and international independence...