Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...institutions, as well as the man provide a continuity to American foreign policy. Presidents must keep an eye on Congress, and the resulting loss in peripheral vision narrows the range of policy alternatives. During the Cuban missile crisis, John Kennedy tempted the holocaust and yet considered his actions dovish because many Congressional leaders demanded "surgical strikes" against the Cuban missile sites. A few years later, Lyndon Johnson remembered that the "loss of China" cost Trumaa control of the Congress. He was determined not to repeat the error in Vietnam...
...route, the trio maniacally distributed money up and down the aisle while reassuring the passengers that they had nothing against them. At José Martí terminal in Havana one of the gunmen disembarked to dicker with Cuban officials; he returned two hours later grousing: "These people here treat you worse than George Wallace or Lester Maddox." The plane headed back to the U.S. and eventually landed at McCoy A.F.B. in Orlando. There the odyssey nearly ended in disaster. After the hijackers demanded to talk to President Nixon, the word came down from Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray that...
...wounded Copilot Billy H. Johnson. Taxiing on nothing but rims wrapped in tattered rubber, the veteran pilot, Captain William R. Haas, 39, miraculously got the plane off the ground. He was again ordered to Cuba, where he set down on a foam-covered runway at José Martí. Cuban authorities immediately confiscated the money and led the hijackers away. The passengers and crew were flown back to Miami. Their 29 hours of terror were ended...
When the plane landed in Havana, Cuban authorities took the four men into custody. They rarely return American hijackers, but when the U.S. State Department asked for their extradition, the Cubans did not say no. Instead, they requested more details on the charges against the men, suggesting that even Cuba may be no refuge for revolutionaries of the likes of Tuller & Sons...
...exception, skyjackers have told Hubbard that they would never have gone through with their plans if they had been certain of immediate return to the U.S. In particular, Hubbard told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos, the four men who killed the agent in Houston must be sent back by the Cubans, "or else the life of every airline ticket agent in this country is up for grabs." Hubbard acknowledges that negotiations with Cuba may be difficult, because "it was the U.S. that first condoned skyjacking; after the Castro takeover, we welcomed as heroes those Cuban refugees who hijacked planes and boats...