Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accept the editorial's assumption that any betrayal of public trust is reason enough for impeachment, then we should have impeached President Kennedy after the Cuban Missile Crisis. During those 13 days in October 1962, President Kennedy reassured the American public that under no circumstances would we trade American missiles for the Soviet missiles in Cuba. Yet, he sent his brother Robert to the then Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin to offer just such a trade. Kennedy offered to remove our Jupiter missiles from Turkey if the Soviets would take their IL-28s out of Cuba. The deal was concluded...
...Soviet side, they cite Brezhnev's support for communist revolutions in Indochina, the 1973 Egyptian and Syrian attack on Israel, Cuban involvement in Angola and the Marxist coup in Afghanistan as examples of "unilateral" actions. And for the U.S.? Only America's exclusion of the Soviet Union from the Middle East peace process...
...late last year, Hall dated Arturo Cruz Jr., 33, son of Contra Leader Arturo Cruz. Like his father, Cruz was a dedicated Sandinista before growing disenchanted with Managua; in the early 1980s he served in Nicaragua's Washington embassy. Rumors floated around the capital that "Arturito" was a Cuban intelligence agent, though the State Department later concluded the stories were unfounded. North tried to persuade Hall to cut off the relationship, but she refused. She ended the affair in November. "She decided Arturo was not the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with," says Tricia Erickson...
Some of the case studies used by the Commission include: the "Cuban Missile Crisis," the "Iran Hostage Negotiation" and the "Achille Lauro...
...vast alliance. Cuba was the first great breach in the Monroe Doctrine, and it has indeed complicated the U.S. strategic position not only in the Americas, where Cuba has actively engaged in the attempted destabilization of one country after another, but as far away as Africa, where Cuban troops serve as a Soviet foreign legion...