Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cuba offers terms for an Angola pullout
...Central American coast, where they will take part in readiness exercises this week. The task force is smaller than U.S. carrier fleets that plied the same waters seven months ago on White House orders, but the intention is the same: to warn the Marxist governments of nearby Nicaragua and Cuba that the U.S. will brook no interference in El Salvador, particularly during the elections...
...long run, this argument goes, such activity creates more sympathy for the rebels, lifting their chances to win the military struggle. In the event they do win, they would almost certainly turn out to be even more authoritarian than the present government, and El Salvador would join Cuba and Nicaragua as a Soviet client state. Under Secretary of Defense Fred Iklé publicly accused some Congressmen of wanting to "wash their hands of Central America like Pontius Pilate" and charged that "un der the cloak of being concerned about human rights" they would "impose a course of action" that actually...
...have consistently born out his sound judgement. For example, McGovern was among the first Congressmen to criticize U.S. intervention in Vietnam, an opposition which became the overriding issue in the 1972 campaign. McGovern's early calls for the recognition of mainland China and peaceful coexistence with Fidel Castro's Cuba have also become testament to McGovern's foresight in foreign policy matters...
...Central America and Cuba: We are living in a rapidly changing world. None of the earlier epochs has known such sweeping and dynamic changes. Social change is literally knocking at the doors of the most ossified tyrannical regimes before our very eyes. In Latin America this is evidenced conclusively by the collapse of the dictatorship in Nicaragua ... the people's movement in El Salvador, the growing will of all nations of the continent toward independence and freedom. The United States wishes to oppose these changes by its "rapid deployment force," by permanent power pressure against countries pursuing a policy...