Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writers assigned to the cover package by Friedrich and World Senior Editor John Elson. TIME correspondents cabled details of the developments from Moscow, Washington and Havana, where Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott had been covering the Conference of Nonaligned Countries. Talbott found no shortage of soldierly looking Soviets in the Cuban capital. "Every morning I went jogging and passed groups of young Russian men," he says. "When I greeted them in Russian, they looked surprised, but usually returned a friendly word or two." Also reporting for the story was Economics Correspondent George Taber, who had been in Cuba only a month...
That was a question that might puzzle both Carter and Vance. For although the Soviet troop presence mightily angered the Senate, the Soviets had broken no treaty or law ? after the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, they agreed only to station no offensive weapons in Cuba ? and the existence of Soviet combat forces in Cuba had long gone unchallenged. This left Vance with very little leverage, except for the Soviet desire for a SALT treaty, to negotiate a Soviet withdrawal. Indeed, after protesting, the State Department received only a noncommittal note from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. According...
Meanwhile, the Soviet press ignored Vance's speech, and there was no sense of crisis in Moscow. In Havana, where Cuban officials generally interpreted the uproar as an attempt to mar the summit conference of non-aligned nations, nobody even answered a protest by Wayne Smith, the head of the U.S. Interests Section. One Cuban Foreign Ministry official quipped: "Americans see Russians everywhere." In friendlier countries too there was little alarm over the Cuban situation...
According to U.S. intelligence sources, the brigade occupies barracks in two locations in Cuba, one of which is near a Soviet-built and Soviet-run electronics information-gathering installation. Because the brigade's areas have been declared strictly off-limits for Cubans, it has been very difficult for the U.S. to slip in spies to gather intelligence on the spot. The brigade has a totally separate command from the Soviet advisers who have been located in Cuba since the early 1960s. Washington has long known about and accepted the fact that Cuba plays host to an estimated 2,000 Soviet...
...closing speech, Cuban premier Fidel Castro, the leader of the movement for the next three years, said his leadership during the conference was "not to benefit Cuba...