Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coming so soon after the Russian man-in-space triumph, the Cuba fiasco seriously damaged U.S. prestige-a subject on which Kennedy had orated too glibly during the campaign. The country's prestige would rise again, and in his actions since the debacle, the President indicated by his sobering talk that he had learned some valuable lessons...
Difficult as it seems, there is still time to avoid disaster. If, as the President rightly suggests, there are lessons to be learned from the fiasco that has been called a Cuban policy, the need for readjustment is certainly the main one Castro, as well as Kennedy, realizes that Cuban autonomy is at stake. Recent Cuban votes against Russia on the Congo and on the removal of Hammarskjold lend hope that the Prime Minister fears a loss of cherished independence on the left...
...most damaging points of the new policy is that the Council being sufficiently wrapped up in its own problems cannot respond and challenge its energy to situations where it is most needed. The Yale Swimming Meet Ticket fiasco sufficiently illustrates a situation where the Council failed to respond and investigate a situation that would have been most appreciated by the student body...
...provisional" Premier of the Algerian Republic, Ferhat Abbas, and his F.L.N. Foreign Minister, Belkacem Krim, cut short their tour of Southeast Asia to rush back to Tunis for discussions with Bourguiba's man, Masmoudi. Burly Ahmed Boumendjel, who had headed the F.L.N. delegation to the Melun fiasco, flew from Tunis to Switzerland, was reportedly in direct touch with a De Gaulle representative at the French embassy in Bern...
...able to prove to a meeting of the Israeli Cabinet six weeks ago that forged papers had been used as part of the evidence that had forced him out of office. Though Ben-Gurion stormed from the room, the Cabinet cleared Lavon of any responsibility for the 1954 fiasco...