Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the new government that developed during the long negotiations that led to Somoza's abdication. At his Washington press conference last week, President Carter said it was a mistake for Americans to assume that every abrupt change in the hemisphere is somehow "the result of secret, massive Cuban intervention." As for the future, he said, "we will use our efforts in a proper fashion without interventionism to let the Nicaraguans let their voice be heard in shaping their own affairs." In response, the junta announced that a delegation "at the highest level" would visit the U.S. this week...
...Somoza and the Sandinista-sponsored Junta of the Government of National Reconstruction. Washington's major worry about the junta, which set up temporary headquarters in a bungalow in San José, Costa Rica, is that two of its five members are leftists who may want to establish a Cuban-style Marxist regime in Managua. Hoping to ensure a more broad-based, and thus more democratic, future government for Nicaragua, Washington two weeks ago sent its new ambassador, Lawrence Pezzullo, to Managua and a veteran diplomat, William G. Bowdler, to San José with a proposal: Somoza would resign...
...staunchest supporter in the House. Murphy went to Managua at his friend's request and attended the meeting between Pezzullo and Somoza. "The issue isn't Somoza," he told TIME last week, "but Nicaragua and the security interests of the U.S. This Sandinista uprising is a Cuban, Venezuelan, Panamanian, Costa Rican operation. It's another Viet Nam, and it's in this hemisphere...
...former Secretary of State made some foreign policy news, although it did not involve the Middle East. In an interview that the Washington Post published during his trip, Kissinger blasted the Administration's Rhodesia policy for favoring Black African radicals rather than moderates, thus contributing to Soviet and Cuban expansionism. Privately, State Department officials complained that Kissinger was not well versed in current U.S. policy and that his views would bring about the very increase in Soviet influence he feared most...
Trapped on the beach, watching the American naval vessels sailing serenely away, some Cuban exiles who thought that the mighty U.S. would never start a military operation without meticulous planning and an unshakable commitment to win, fired their guns in rage at the departing ships. Incredibly, none of Kennedy's CIA or military advisers had warned him that, faced with disaster, the invaders could not simply slip into the Escambray Mountains and carry on as anti-Castro guerrillas. The mountains were too far away, separated from the landing site by swamps, and the invaders had been given no training...