Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said he was a Communist. (Augusto Cesar Sandino, assassinated in 1934, was a guerrilla leader and nationalist who in fact was not a Communist.) They ousted their other allies in the revolution, and then they established a totalitarian Communist regime, the same process that Castro employed in taking over Cuba...
...clear that the Sandinistas have long since backed away from their three original pledges, if they were ever meant seriously. In its foreign policy, Nicaragua today is indisputably aligned with Moscow. The comandantes both vacation and attend conferences in East bloc countries, Nicaraguan students are sent to schools in Cuba and the Soviet Union, and the country's formidable military forces are armed by Moscow and trained by Cuban and Soviet advisers. The Sandinistas say their sympathies are understandable. Whereas the U.S. mined Nicaragua's harbors, the Soviet Union provided helicopter gunships to combat the contras. When the U.S. imposed...
...missile crisis and the Social Security compromise during Reagan's first term as success stories. Horror stories are more common, and include Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs invasion, President Carter's aborted arms control initiative in 1977 and his handling of the report of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba...
...Nicaragua, said Neustadt, "It may be playing out China again, but it also may be playing out Cuba again...
Along with his boss Andrei Gromyko, Dobrynin looked Kennedy in the eye and denied there were missiles in Cuba. Did he lie? Probably. But he was forgiven because his untruth was within the bounds of diplomatic duplicity. He negotiated enthusiastically for an arms summit with Lyndon Johnson. The night before announcement of the summit, Dobrynin rushed to tell the President that Soviet troops were moving into Czechoslovakia. End of summit. Another deception? Of course, but again he charmed his way back to credibility...