Word: fidelity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fidel Castro's offer to swap rebel prisoners for heavy-duty tractors has raised a strange debate, in which every speaker seems to vie for irrelevancy...
Kennedy supporters assess Latin American reaction to the tractor deal as largely hostile to Fidel Castro, and believe that the U.S. has scored an unthinking propaganda coup. But whatever his critics or supporters decide, Kennedy was right to accept the offer. By spurning it, he would have been betraying the men the U.S. landed in Cuba, and giving Castro still another opportunity to remind Latin Americans of a fact that already know--that the burden of blame for Cuba today rests on the shoulders of the United States. Our pattern of denial must...
...wonders, however, how much farther the Cuban government would lean toward the Communists if we were to send a representative to Cuba to talk directly with Fidel Castro, not to negotiate but rather to deliver an ultimatum: "The Cuban government has 24 hours in which to renounce all connection with the Soviet government and return to a position in keeping with the principles expressed and implied in the Monroe Doctrine." An extra 10,000 Marines on Guantanamo and the Atlantic fleet on "maneuvers" in the Caribbean should leave no doubt that we meant business...
Cold War Currency. Writing his own postscript to the invasion, Fidel Castro last week turned the 1,000 prisoners he took at the Bay of Pigs into cold war currency. Recalling Spain's exchange of Napoleon's soldiers for pigs,* Castro told a crowd of whooping peasants: "We are a little more refined. We will exchange them for bulldozers." The price would be 500 bulldozers. "Otherwise they must pay by hard work, very hard work, digging trenches and building fortifications." After a weekend celebration of his newly awarded Lenin Peace Prize, Castro sent a committee of ten prisoners...
...means possible" upon continued access to West Berlin. In a speech to a convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, President Kennedy said that in Cuba "the story is not yet finally ended." White House aides explained that the President was determined, by political and economic isolation of Fidel Castro, to topple or enfeeble him-but he was setting no deadline...