Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Balance of Military Power. It is shifting so rapidly against the U.S., said Kissinger, that in a future confrontation "like that in Cuba in 1962 or the Mideast alert in 1973, it will be the Soviet Union which will possess the quantitative superiority in strategic weapons." The danger, he said, "is less an imminent nuclear attack on us than an increased Soviet willingness to run risks in local conflicts." In such cases, said Kissinger, Soviet superiority in conventional arms could no longer be offset by a credible threat of U.S. nuclear retaliation. "The present Administration has compounded the problem...
Truman's doctrine of aid for Greece and Turkey was not bellicose but bold. Kennedy directly confronted the Soviets in Cuba...
Nixon's ultimatum on the sub base in Cuba had the desired effect without a shot being fired. Ford sent the Marines after the Mayaguez pirates...
...most dramatic protests against the austerities and repression of life in Cuba in years. Last week more than 7,000 men, women and children poured through the gates and clambered over the walls of the Peruvian embassy on Havana's spacious Avenida Quinta, demanding asylum. Some accounts put the figure as high as 10,800. There they remained through a week of tension and confusion as Latin American diplomats agonized over what to do with them...
...April 4, 1980) says. "The delays subsequently resulted in a postponement, which moved the case from the docket of Judge Harry P. Elam, a Black judge, to the afternoon session under Judge Charles Grabau, a white judge." I also do not feel that because Judge Grabau grew up in Cuba, he is Hispanic...