Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better understood in Japan today than it was a year ago, its image in India has slightly clouded over. The change is due partly to the U.S. fiasco in Cuba, but more importantly to U.S. criticism of Indian actions: India's bull-headed demand for another unworkable nuclear test ban last October, the unsavory adventure...
...Convair backed out of the commercial jet business with the 880 fiasco, it might have held its losses to perhaps $100 million. Instead, in an attempt to recoup its 880 losses, Convair decided to build a long-range jet, the 990, which, by using the then new fanjet engine, would fly faster (635 m.p.h.) than any comparable commercial jet. To save lead time, Convair skipped making a prototype, with the result that when the first 990s came off the production line, they could not fly at the guaranteed speed-and General Dynamics was forced to cut the sale price...
...policy on Cuba, clouded since the invasion fiasco in the Bay of Pigs, could be seen a little more clearly last week. To begin with, said President Kennedy, the U.S. is not resigned to Castro; he is still a "threat to peace," the President told Izvestia Editor Alexei Adzhubei. Until Castro holds "free and honest elections," he "cannot claim to represent the majority of the people...
Still, the snatches of backstair gossip are flying--the same sort of rumors that credited Bowles with being one of the few White House advisers who was right about the Cuban invasion fiasco. Certainly the circumstances under which Bowles left are suspicious enough to arouse the concern of all who admire this gifted man. One would have expected, for example, his new position to be announced simultaneously with the news that he was quitting as Under Secretary of State. Instead, a day passed, and Bowles spent an hour with Kennedy before his new job was named. President Kennedy...
...same time, Nasser arrested leading army officers, including some close to U.A.R. commander in chief, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, an old friend considered responsible for giving Nasser bad advice during the Syrian fiasco. The army shake-up so far has brought imprisonment or house arrest to an estimated 400 officers, many of whom have been sent to El Dakhla. a sand-rimmed Alcatraz in the desert wastes of the upper Nile. There they are joined by growing numbers of civilians, imprisoned for anti-Nasser sympathies. Government spies are everywhere. One Mme. Badrawi spent half an hour at Cairo...