Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to a Pentagon spokesman, the cache of Soviet and Cuban arms found on Grenada was "far and above what any island this size would need for self-defense." Unless, of course, the arms were intended as a defense against a U.S. invasion...
...have a new fanaticism linked to neither religious nor political causes, namely Cuban construction workers determined to die for tourism...
Although the 87 page transcript of the 33-minute Cuban Missile Crisis tape which was released in October contain few startling revelation they help enhance the understanding of the 13-day crisis according to professors and researchers who have studied the transcripts...
...another Viet Nam here, another round of gunboat diplomacy (carried out by another Teddy Roosevelt) there. Administration officials are quoted as explaining that the Grenada invasion was meant variously to prevent "another Iran," "another Beirut"(!), "another Nicaragua" or "another Suriname." (There is irony here. Suriname had fallen under Cuban influence after a recent military takeover. The day after the Grenada invasion, Suriname expelled the Cuban ambassador and practically every Cuban adviser in the country-out of fear of becoming "another Grenada.") Perhaps it was the enormity of the loss in Beirut or the suddenness of the invasion of Grenada...
What is truly missing from the debate on Central America is the realization on the critics side that Soviet and Cuban influence in the region is unacceptable for security reasons, and on the Administration's side, that force is not the solution to the problems. It is true that the Reagan Administration understands the nature of U.S. interests in Central America, but not how to protect them. Military might, even if temporarily successful, can only temporarily quell the deep social and economic problem burdening the regions. Although even for the armchair analyst these problems seem endlessly frustrating, it's important...