Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost four weeks after the invasion, the other combat statistics also remained inexplicably unsettled. Only the 18 Grenadian civilians accidentally killed in a U.S. air attack, and the American casualties-18 killed, 113 wounded-are definite. Officials in Cuba and Grenada seem to agree that 25 Cubans and 21 Grenadian soldiers were killed. The Pentagon, meanwhile, counts 71 Cuban and more than 100 Grenadian dead...
President John F. Kennedy was chatting with his four year-old daughter Caroline at approximately 11:50 a.m. on October 16, 1962 when an advisor came into his office to inform him that a medium range ballistic missile launch site" was "installed in west central Cuba...
These tapes however, do point out how the ultimate of action differed from the original discussions. At the time, the tapes reveal, Kennedy aid his advisors for example, seriously considered air strikes against Cuba...
...know what do in a country, don't send in gem," he said, adding. "If we're really worried about communism in Grenada, we ought to do something in Cuba...
...LAFEBER'S analysis of post-Somoza Nicaragua, for example, is questionable. Like many liberal and left wing critics of current U.S. policy, LaFeber asserts that American over-reaction to Sandinista actually pushed Nicaragua into the arms of Cuba and the Soviets. A closer reality in the explanation given by former junta members that argues that Nicaraguan shift to the left was the result of the Marxist inspired Sandinistas emerging from an anti-Somoza coalition as the predominant political power. One fact LaFeber doesn't cite is that only eight months after rebels poured into Managua...