Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There couldn't be a better setting for Ronald Reagan--like the Toga Room, an imperfect relic of a different age. Reagan outlines for the crowd his solution to the Afghanistan crisis--a blockade of the island nation of Cuba, nothing in and nothing out until the Soviets withdraw from the Afghan nation. "All we've been doing is reacting. Why don't we give them something to think about, like Cuba?" he suggests, to cheers. "I think it's time we quit telling the enemy what we won't do, and letting them go to bed at night wondering...
...same time as he chided the President for his proposals to strengthen the U.S., Kennedy approvingly quoted Theodore Roosevelt: "Don't flourish your revolver and never draw unless you intend to shoot." Carter had made a "false draw" with his demands for withdrawal of the Soviet brigade in Cuba and then changed his mind, said Kennedy, and that move "may have invited the invasion of Afghanistan...
...important hitches and plenty of warm crowds-but also a certain lack of spontaneity, as if the veteran actor were playing an overfamiliar role. He hammered away at Carter's foreign policy, proposing one new American initiative after another. He mentioned as a possibility a blockade of Cuba-"Stop the shipment of everything in and out"-in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As another option, he suggested stationing U.S. fighter planes with support personnel in Pakistan. He went out of his way to bring up Viet Nam. Said he: "When 50,000 Americans make the ultimate sacrifice...
...orbit in 1948, and China the following year, after Mao Tse-tung's armies swept across the country. Five years later, North Viet Nam became Communist, after the peasant armies of Ho Chi Minh humiliated the French at Dien Bien Phu. In 1960, Fidel Castro aligned Cuba with the Kremlin. The 1970s saw the emergence of Marxist, pro-Moscow regimes in Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia...
...next few months. That is improbable. So is the possibility, now being discussed, of moving the Games from Moscow to some other city, or postponing them. Jimmy Carter has committed the prestige of his presidency to the boycott. Having ineffectually lectured the Soviets last fall about their troops in Cuba, he cannot now fail to make an Olympic boycott stick, especially in a presidential election year. Nor does Carter stand exactly in embattled isolation on the issue. A chorus of polls and editorial writers has proclaimed a strong national disposition to stay home. Last week the Senate followed the House...