Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skyjacking: Nixon scooped the State Department by breaking the news of a treaty with Cuba that provides for a "most severe penalty" or extradition for the piracy of planes or ships between the two countries. The U.S. retains the right to offer political asylum to Cuban refugees who steal small boats or planes without violence or extortion, but it has pledged to deal harshly with exile expeditions carried out by Cuban refugees against Cuba. Though the treaty marks the first breakthrough in relations with Cuba since 1961, Secretary of State Rogers insisted that it did not represent any general thawing...
...Democratic President might weaken U.S. policy toward Communism (TIME, Jan. 29); McCord had joined because he believed that the bugging might intercept some nefarious plot against the Republicans planned by a left-wing group; and the four other defendants had become involved because Hunt, their former boss during the Cuban invasion, told them it was part of the fight against Communism and Cuba...
Sir/What "Cuban Dilemma" [Jan. 15]? Let our Swiss intermediaries cool it on the negotiations to return hijackers. America should definitely continue the time-and morality-honored custom of protecting refugees. American hijackers can stay in Fidel's sugar fields with overseers with whips and guns...
read a headline during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Crimson backed the President in his execution of foreign policy, and so did the associate professor of Government, Dr. Kissinger. In the days when his name was not a household word, and his consulting with the government was on a far less grand scale than his current employment. Henry A. Kissinger '50 was a frequent topic in The Crimson. "Our sincerity is not at issue, our competence might be," Kissinger told a reporter about the nuclear test ban treaty. And almost every week at one point. Kissinger bombarded the paper with...
Hunt, who said last week that he had recruited the four into the spying operation, told TIME Correspondent David Beckwith: "I'm almost certain that the Cuban community in Miami will take care of those four. The great majority of the Cuban community is convinced that what they were doing [at the Watergate] will redound to the ultimate benefit of Cuba, and I'm convinced of that." Presumably he meant that most anti-Castro Cuban refugees favored a Nixon victory in November...