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Keating, a leading Republican critic of the Kennedy administration's handling of the problem of Soviet military power in Cuba, said he had "never suggested" the possibility of an invasion of the U.S. He said, however, that Soviet military forces in Cuba threaten to engulf Latin America unless they are removed. He did not specify the steps he feels must be taken...
...drafted, and sent to the front," an ominous-sounding male voice admonished. "The flames of war may creep in from the Caribbean and engulf your home...
...rebels intended to kill Castro and other members of the Communist hierarchy, then follow up with sabotage and uprisings that would engulf Cuba in turmoil. Behind the plot was a reorganized Cuban underground, including a new group consisting largely of Cuban military men fed up with Castro. The plotters reportedly had backing in the Cuban army, the navy, even the militia. But they paid dearly for their plans...
Harkins has at least won a breathing spell. Viet Cong raids and ambushes last month averaged 100 a week, as against 135 the month before. Communist casualties reached 6,000, double those of the Vietnamese army. Within weeks, the rainy season will engulf South Viet Nam in torrential downpours, and the fighting seems certain to diminish even further. During the next six months, therefore, the strategic hamlets will have full opportunity to prove themselves. Says Harkins: "I am an optimist, and I am not going to allow my staff to be pessimistic." Echoes Ambassador Nolting...
...indignation from Welensky because it would have given the blacks considerable advantages in future elections. The second withdrew most of these advantages and was bitterly opposed by Northern Rhodesia's leading black nationalist, Kenneth Kaunda, whose followers launched a long bout of bloody noting that threatened to engulf the entire territory. To Britain's Colonial Secretary Reginald Maudling, it was clear that any third formula must come to terms with black demands. In the end, he chose an intricate variation of the first two electoral systems, which increased black chances just enough to allow a clear African majority...