Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...common for American children to practice air raid drills at school, climbing under their desks while instructors coached them not to look out the window at the fireball if it came. Many went home and saw the fireballs in their dreams. When the Soviet Union installed nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962, instead of hiding under their desks, children filed into school chapels and prayed that John F. Kennedy would be vindicated in his decision to face down Nikita Khrushchev. Again, giant mushroom clouds grew only in dreams...
...Wildly excessive, not to mention expensive, programs were justified on both sides in the interests of preserving a "balance of terror." Nonetheless, the nightmare of actual war receded somewhat into the subconscious of civilization. Partly because of the scare that Kennedy and Khrushchev had given the world over Cuba, the U.S. and the Soviet Union buckled down to the serious pursuit of agreements that would diminish the chances of nuclear war. With only modest successes and numerous stalls and setbacks, that effort continued in earnest until late in the Carter Administration, when it became clear that the Senate would reject...
...rape or incest. Abortions were rewarded to women who were either ill or rich. Hospitals awarded abortions to those women with diseases that could harm development of the fetus, almost as if in compensation for their illness. Alternatively, women with time and money could fly to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico or other vacation spots that performed relatively safe operations...
...concerns certain conceptions of power that America seems to cherish. To John Kennedy, "power had only two components--ample resources, and the will to use them." If the military budget is big enough and the president is man enough, than we are unstoppable. The unique conditions which existed in Cuba at the time of the Bay of Pigs (all of which signalled a certain failure to overthrow Castro) were hardly taken into consideration. Why bother? Of course, there is a lesson to be learned from The Kennedy Imprisonment, a lesson which Wills rightly thinks the country should take to heart...
According to the U.S. State Department, Handal has close links with the Soviet Union and Cuba, and often travels to both countries, as well as to other East bloc members. He also has ties to the Palestine Liberation Organization, and in particular to its leader, Yasser Arafat. Handal has been active in the purchase of arms for the Salvadoran guerrillas. Richard Araujo, a Latin American expert at the Heritage Foundation, says of Handal: "He'd like to be the Latin American Arafat...