Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rhetoric intensifies as Carter tries to defuse the Cuban crisis...
...capital's crisis mood was further fueled by an unexpected development in Havana: Fidel Castro, it was learned, was going to hold a Friday press conference, and he wanted U.S. journalists there. While there was no indication of what the Cuban leader would say, no one in the Administration expected words of conciliation, and Castro did not disappoint them. For 80 min., he met with eight U.S. correspondents, including TIME's Walter Isaacson, in a reception room outside his office...
...kind of meet-the-voter outing that he so enjoys and that usually produces nothing more than a picnic of calm discussion about unstormy subjects. But midway through the proceedings, Fred Feingold, a salesman from Hollis Hills, wanted to know whether there would be a danger of another Cuban missile crisis "if nothing works and the [Soviet] troops just stay" in Cuba. The President's reply: "We are now trying through diplomacy to get the Soviets to eliminate the combat nature of this unit. I don't know yet whether we will succeed. If we do not succeed...
...least bit concerned with the Soviet and Cuban presence in Africa because what the USSR wants is an extension of their ideology which is not what Africans want," he said...
Whatever the outcome, the Cuban affair not only casts still more doubt on the leadership of the Carter Administration but also raises a longer-term and more disturbing question about whether the Congress - recently so assertive about playing a bigger role in foreign policy - can help solve crises rather than manufacturing and aggravating them...