Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...travelling it. the Middle East this week to convince Arab and Israeli leaders to put aside their differences and unite against the Soviet Union. The administration has analyzed unrest in Central America quite graphically: a few weeks ago. Haig told a Congressional committee that the Soviet Union and Cuba had drawn up a "hit list" of countries in the region...
While it is native to deny that the Soviet Union and Cuba have contributed to political instability in the developing world, it is equally simplistic to discount domestic political and economic conditions in explaining such instability. Ironically, U.S. supported economic development in the postwar period may have fostered the political unrest that now confronts the administration. The increased literacy rates, urbanization, television and other factors accompanying development have raised the expectations within developing nations with regard to the improvement of economic well being. However, greater inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth and the continued exclusion of newly politicized...
Haig used similar terms when he turned to Latin America, the Administration's other publicized battleground in its struggle against Soviet expansionism. If Cuba did not halt the flow of arms to rebels in El Salvador, Haig warned, pos sible U.S. responses "include consideration of a whole range of American as sets." Cuban and Soviet bloc intervention in Latin America, he contended, is part of a "four-phased operation" that began with "the seizure of Nicaragua," a country whose new government Carter courted but Reagan seemed almost prepared to write off. Said Haig: "Next is El Salvador...
Realizing that the Esmeralda management meant the Cuban government, Glassman reread the documents, substituting Cuba for Esmeralda. One report discussed the Communist official's trip and the weapons he was promised. Another document spoke of Esmeralda-Cuba as a transshipment point for weapons from Ethiopia and Viet Nam, and mentioned guerrilla supply lines through Nicaragua. The grocery-store papers represented over 70% of the material that Washington used to draw up last month's White Paper documenting Soviet and Cuban arms aid to El Salvador's insurgency...
...late in the 1950s). Truman threatened to use nuclear weapons in both Iran and Korea, and Eisenhower again threatened in Korea. During the era of clear United States superiority in nuclear weapons, Kennedy was able to use their coercive effects to force show-downs in crises over Berlin and Cuba...