Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers have been involved in combat (though they were prepared to fight in the aborted hostage rescue raid into Iran), and 2) Reagan has in recent years repeatedly recommended the use of American military force in various foreign situations. For example, he suggested a U.S. naval blockade of Cuba in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and said that U.S. soldiers could have been used to ensure an orderly transition to black majority rule in Rhodesia...
...existing arsenal by the threat of a future U.S. buildup. But were it not for Carter's own similar naiveté four years ago, SALT II would almost certainly have been signed-and ratified-early in his Administration, long before its passage was "linked" to Soviet behavior in Cuba and Afghanistan. Such linkage was always dubious, since SALT benefits both sides...
Answer: The Soviets aboard the ship were so worried about being hijacked to Cuba that they slapped his hands every time he reached for the controls...
Where Carter negotiated an arms control treaty that he still intends to lobby through Congress, Reagan would scrap SALT II and challenge the Soviet Union to an arms race. Where Carter has exercised restraint in dealing with the Soviet combat troops in Cuba and invasion of Afghanistan, Reagan threatened to blockade Cuba and to teach the Soviets a lesson after Afghanistan. Where Carter, caught in the throes of the new militarism, reinstituted draft registration, Reagan's record suggests he might use the new recruits to fight for some new "noble cause." Where Carter has learned from four years of mixed...
...under Carter's guidance; yet his only response to the abject misery of millions is to emphasize the unfairness of life and induce a job-robbing recession. Abroad, despite his avowed commitment to "human rights," Carter has shared the acquisitive and paranoid biases of his predecessors. Be it in Cuba, where he tried to create his own missile crisis over the existence of a 15-year old Soviet combat brigade, be it in Iran, where he embraced the Shah and called him a man beloved by his people, be it in the Persian Gulf, where Carter stated without a gulp...