Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crisis blew up suddenly. The U.S. discovered that the Soviet Union, despite repeated and solemn denials, was installing nuclear missiles in Cuba. An American U-2 spy plane came back with photographs of the bases and their support facilities under construction: clear, irrefutable evidence. Kennedy assembled a task force of advisers. Some of them wanted to invade Cuba. In the end, Kennedy chose a course of artful restraint; he laid down a naval quarantine. After six days, Khrushchev announced that the Soviet missiles would be dismantled...
...words between Washington and Havana, but this time the barrage came from an unexpected source. In an article published in the fall issue of the quarterly Foreign Policy magazine, Wayne Smith, a former State Department official, delivers a stinging critique of the Reagan Administration's policies toward Cuba. Charges Smith: "Its approach is as hackneyed as it has been unsuccessful...
...head the U.S. interests section before resigning last month. While acknowledging that no U.S. Administration has ever devised an effective policy for dealing with Fidel Castro, Smith especially blasts the rigid, confrontational approach of the Reagan White House. From the start, Smith contends, the Reaganauts were obsessed with forcing Cuba to stop meddling in Central America and, in particular, to quit supplying arms to the guerrillas in El Salvador. But U.S. attempts to pressure Castro backfired; he responded by seeking more arms from the Soviet Union...
...best change Cuban policies by "demonstrating over time that compromise is in Havana's interests." The State Department denies that the U.S. ever "closed the door to a dialogue," and Secretary of State George Shultz indicated last week that chances for opening talks now were nil. "If Cuba changes its behavior, fine," he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "But Cuba is not likely to do that in response to some general plea from...
More than 900 spectators attended an October 24 Cuba forum in Lowell Lecture Hall sponsored by the national disarmament group, Tocsin. The gathering featured Hughes, who lambasted JFK for creating "a contrived and theatrical atmosphere" of military confrontation rather than relying primarily on peaceful United Nations intervention. History Professor Stephan A. Thernstrom, then a first-year instructor and a Hughes organizer, recalls that Tocsin sympathizers "had a horrible sinking feeling everyone would rally around the flag and move us closer to war." The Crimson agreed, editorializing that Kennedy should have dealt more directly with Cuban leader Fidel Castro rather than...