Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fidel Castro was less than complimentary when Houari Boumedienne replaced Ahmed Ben Bella as leader of revolutionary Algeria seven years ago. "A pimp," was the Cuban Premier's unbowdlerized estimate of Boumedienne. "A reactionary gorilla." Last week, as Castro visited Algeria in the course of a two-month hegira through Africa and the East bloc, Boumedienne had become "a great strategist" and Algeria under his rule was "a just society...
Deceptive as that signal might yet prove to be, it relieved the grim tension that had enveloped Washington. For the moment, at least, a showdown between the two superpowers had been averted. Not since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 had the possibility of armed conflict between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. loomed so large. This time the arena of conflict was half a world away in the Gulf of Tonkin, rather than 90 miles from the U.S. mainland, and this time, fortunately, there was no deadline ultimatum requiring immediate response. The feeling that the worst was past was reinforced...
...still unknown at the time of writing--the Moscow leaders will have to keep another important fact in mind: they overthrew their predecessor Khruschev who was ineffectual and who backed down at the expense of an ally in the face of U.S. demands at the time of the Cuban missile crisis...
...Cuban army, with some 80,000 men, is one of the largest and best-equipped in Latin America, as Premier Fidel Castro noted earlier this year in commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. "Never have our people had such a mass of fighters, such a quantity of cadres as those we now have," he said. What Fidel did not say was that the Russians had told him that the cost of keeping so many in uniform was an unnecessary burden on the economy and also prevented young men from pursuing careers in industry and agriculture...
...incident and the 1961 Berlin crisis, but through it all Thompson maintained excellent rapport with Soviet leaders. He was also valued for his ability to analyze Soviet intentions and predict how the Kremlin would react in specific cases; thus the White House sought his advice during the Cuban missile confrontation...