Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professor, there are familiar echoes--failures such as the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam, and successes such as the Cuban missile crisis...
They cite John F. Kennedy's handling of the Cuban missile crisis and the Social Security compromise during Reagan's first term as success stories. Horror stories are more common, and include Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs invasion, President Carter's aborted arms control initiative in 1977 and his handling of the report of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba...
...Pigs invasion in 1961, in which a force of 2000 Cuban exiles, trained by the Central Intelligence Agency, landed on the island and were swiftly defeated and captured, was described by Neustadt and May as "the classic case of presumptions unexamined...
...continued incidents of unrest." The State President also set an Aug. 1 deadline to begin implementation of a United Nations independence plan for the South Africa-controlled territory of South West Africa, or Namibia. Botha made it clear, however, that the plan is still contingent on the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola...
Sandinista troops, on the other hand, are bolder and better equipped than ever. The combination of Soviet-built Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters with heavy artillery has overwhelmed the rebels. Cuban advisers have tightened up the Sandinistas' communications and coordination...