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Statement from the CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTRY rejecting $100,000 in U.S. relief aid in the wake of Hurricane Gustav and calling instead for an end to economic sanctions...
...much as the next guy, but I have a good memory. What would the U.S. do if Russia suddenly started alliances with Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba and other Latin American states and began setting up missiles there? Fortunately, we have an answer. President Kennedy faced the Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis. Why should the Russians be the ones to blame for the current crisis? We ought to look in the mirror, and at the Texas cowboy in the White House. Albert Reingewirtz, HAVERTOWN...
...fear Russia as much as the next guy, but I have a good memory. What would the U.S. do if Russia suddenly started alliances with Cuba and other Latin American states and began setting up missiles there? Fortunately, we have an answer. President Kennedy faced the Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis. Why should the Russians be the ones to blame for the current crisis? We ought to look in the mirror and at the Texas cowboy in the White House. Albert Reingewirtz, Havertown...
...much as the next guy, but I have a good memory. What would the U.S. do if Russia suddenly started alliances with Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba and other Latin American states and began setting up missiles there? Fortunately, we have an answer. President Kennedy faced the Soviets during the Cuban missile crisis. Why should the Russians be the ones to blame for the current crisis? We ought to look in the mirror and at the Texas cowboy in the White House. Albert Reingewirtz, HAVERTOWN...
...worked often with the U.S. since Fidel Castro took power in Cuba in 1959, serving in the Army and then assisting the CIA in adventures like the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Iran-Contra operation under President Reagan. In 1990, gunmen believed to be Cuban agents shot him several times in the face and torso in Guatemala but failed to kill him. Through it all, as recently declassified FBI and CIA documents indicate, he has been accused of taking part in terrorist activities like the 1976 Cuban airline bombing and a conspiracy to assassinate Castro in Panama...