Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, officials from both sides retained significant but friendly differences. The U.S. visitors underscored Washington's conviction that the Marxist-led guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador, which is now in its fourth year, is part of a subversive wave that is covertly backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba as well by Nicaragua. They explained that the U.S.'s increasingly controversial policies in the region, including economic and military support for El Salvador and sponsorship of a covert insurgency against Nicaragua, are a response to that provocation. Secretary of State Shultz, said a senior U.S. diplomat, "expressed...
...atmospheric testing was harmful to their health. Partly as a result of living through the suspense over Cuba and worrying about strontium-90, a radioactive isotope in fallout that was poisoning milk, the American body politic acquired a deep, visceral attachment to the idea of arms control. Then as now, public-opinion polls showed a widespread yearning that the leaders in Washington and Moscow keep up the search for ways to regulate military competition...
...That policy was spelled out in a secret document summarizing decisions reached by President Reagan and his foreign policy advisers a year ago and was published last week by the New York Times. The document identified the goal of U.S. policy in Central America as to prevent "proliferation of Cuba-model states." While it made no mention of military activity against Nicaragua, it defined U.S. strategy as "increasing the pressure on Nicaragua and Cuba to increase for them the costs of interventionism." The pressure obviously is intended in part to be economic. The White House let it be known last...
...well. A combined U.S. and Latin-American panel headed by Sol Linowitz, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, and Galo Plaza, former President of Ecuador, last week advocated a new approach for negotiations among the U.S., Nicaragua, other Central American governments and revolutionary movements, and even Cuba and the Soviet Union. The aim would be to work out "understandings" like those between Washington and Moscow that ended the Cuban missile crisis by trading a Kremlin agreement not to put Soviet nuclear weapons into Cuba for a U.S. pledge not to invade Cuba. The new understandings would pledge...
...will often lie to the public to achieve its aims. It is true that the U.S. has threatened the use of nuclear missiles before (and has even used two atomic bombs), but such threats have ended two bloody wars and kept the Soviets at bay in Iran (1946) and Cuba...