Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed somewhat out of step with his Secretary of State, who was treating the issue with gravity, the President appeared to view it almost lightly. He emphasized to his guests that the Soviet brigade "posed no threat" to the U.S. He added that at the time of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Moscow had some 20,000 troops in Cuba and remnants of that force have remained there ever since. According to one of the breakfast participants, the President speculated that the Soviet brigade could be "deeply embarrassing to Castro when he is trying to palm himself...
...Lockheed SR-71 (Blackbird), which flies more than three times as fast as sound at above 85,000 ft., makes occasional photo-reconnaissance runs over Cuba. The old standby, the, U2, also goes on photographic and electronic "ferreting" missions, but it remains almost 20 miles high and well outside Cuban airspace to keep from being shot down...
Last week's Soviet troop controversy raised echoes of the Cuban missile crisis, but that was a far different affair...
Fidel Castro likes to rail at the evils of colonialism, but Cuba itself is in one vital respect the complacent ward of an imperialist nation. Without aid from its superpower sugar daddy, the Soviet Union, the Cuban economy would sink beneath the Caribbean waves...
...Cubans are proud of their revolutionary achievements in health and education, but they occasionally grumble about their dependence on the U.S.S.R. The Castro regime has been moving away from pure Communism and flirting with supply-and-demand economics. There are new incentive programs for workers and a plan to pay interest on small savings accounts. Castro has also dropped hints in recent months about resuming trade with the U S which had been an overpowering force in the Cuban economy until Washington imposed a total embargo in the early 1960s. Washington's reply: no deal unless Cuba withdraws...