Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khrushchev evidently decided Kennedy could be pushed around, and so he ordered nuclear missiles placed in Cuba. Khrushchev badly misread Kennedy. Eighteen years later Brezhnev measured Jimmy Carter during the Vienna summit of 1979; he subsequently decided that the Soviets could invade Afghanistan without serious consequences...
When John Kennedy demanded that Nikita Khrushchev remove Soviet missiles from Cuba in 1962, the American President was carrying a big stick: roughly a 10-to-1 superiority over the U.S.S.R. in nuclear weaponry. At the time, and for years afterward, it was commonly accepted in both Moscow and Washington that the overwhelming U.S. nuclear advantage had enabled Kennedy to go to the brink and force Khrushchev to back down. The episode humiliated the Soviet leadership and contributed to Khrushchev's downfall two years later. Leonid Brezhnev and his comrades were determined that the Soviet Union catch...
...commercial in which a Fidel Castro look-alike delightedly lit a cigar with a $100 bill and intoned: "Muchissimas gracias, Senor Sasser." The false implication was that Beard's opponent, Democratic Senator Jim Sasser, had voted for foreign aid appropriations that had somehow benefited Communist Cuba. In California, Republican Peter Cost, a candidate for the state assembly, showed a TV spot in which three actors dressed up to look like especially vicious convicts sat around in a jail cell and praised Cost's opponent, Democrat Sam Farr, for opposing the death penalty...
...siding with Britain in the Falkland Island's war. Last week it was Britain's turn to feel outrage as Washington backed Argentina in the Latest diplomatic skirmish over the remote South Atlantic dependencies. With the entire Soviet bloc and such radical states as Viet Nam, Cuba and Libya, the U.S. voted in the United Nations General Assembly for a nonbinding resolution that urged Britain to return to the negotiating table on the Falklands issue. The final tally: 90 in favor, twelve against and 52 abstentions, including most of Britain's Western European allies...
...Guns of August his presidential handbook, because nowhere else was there such a clear story of ignorance leading to misjudgment and then to catastrophe. When Kennedy first saw the pictures of the missiles in place, he felt that the U.S. would have to launch a full-scale assault on Cuba to destroy them. History, riding on his shoulder, held him back. First, learn more. Then communicate. Don't humiliate. Be patient. And strong...