Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that many of the people who are so quick to question the necessity of Nixon's military alert are the same people who could not stop praising Kennedy's courage in needlessly bringing the world to the brink of a nuclear confrontation with Russia in the alleged Cuban missile "crisis...
...Commander in Chief and the foreign policy responsibilities assigned to him amply demonstrate that the founding fathers intended that the Chief Executive use decisive, independent military power when necessary. As a practical matter, Nixon continued, under the new law "we may well have been unable to respond" in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the Congo rescue operation in 1964 and other international crises that called for strong U.S. action. Moreover, he charged, the restrictions "give every future Congress the ability to handcuff every future President merely by doing nothing and sitting still," since the Chief Executive needs specific approval...
...Cuban freighter Imias has been swinging idly at anchor between two locks in the Panama Canal since Oct. 3. Throughout that tune a U.S. Zone policeman hi a tiny launch has circled the ship with unceasing vigilance. The bizarre scene is part of an international legal tangle that involves money, politics, diplomacy, a violent coup, and howls from all sides directed at the U.S. and the federal judge who is responsible for the launch's vigil...
...economic policy hastened Cuba's drive for independence. As European beet sugar production drove the price of Cuban sugar down, Americans stepped in where plantation owners were selling out cheaply. An increase in the U.S. sugar tariff in 1895 accelerated the rate of plantation workers' layoffs, heating up the Cubans' resentment of Spain to the point where revolution was inevitable...
...Nixon White House. Although it was hardly his intention, the President virtually conceded, at his Washington press conference two weeks ago, that something had gone wrong with his policy of easing relations with the Soviet Union when he spoke of "the most difficult crisis we have had since the Cuban confrontation of 1962." The logical question, which spokesmen for the President have yet to answer adequately: How could a Cuban-type exercise in eyeballing take place in the midst of a détente that was designed to avoid just that kind of cold war brinkmanship...