Word: mikoyan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you, Señor Mikoyan," said the Havana newspaper, Diario de la Marina. "Your visit has clarified many things and defined the camps: on one side the Communists and their knowing and unknowing accomplices; on the other side Cubans who want to continue being free men in a free world." Leaving Cuba after ten days, Russia's Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan had scored high, winning a trade treaty and a promise of resumed diplomatic relations. But there were many signs that the common Cuban found the new warmth between Havana and Moscow distasteful and even dangerous...
Battle of Wreaths. Next morning at 11:30, Mikoyan laid a hammer-and-sickle wreath on the statue of Jose Marti, Cuba's George Washington, and took off for the Palace of Fine Arts, two blocks away, to open the exposition with an outdoor speech. A few minutes later a small group of students approached the statue with their own wreath, bearing a ribbon that said: "Vindication for the visit of the assassin Mikoyan." When cops waved them off, a student shouted: "If he can place a wreath, why can't we?" Soldiers guarding Mikoyan at the exposition...
Screened by buildings, Mikoyan and the assembled dignitaries two blocks away heard the shots, and the bewildered audience began to scream. Soldiers aimed their guns at rooftops. Mikoyan slid indoors but reappeared in a few minutes, and the speeches began. Cuba's Commerce Minister warmed up the crowd with the marvelously fortuitous news that he had just received a cabled order from Moscow for 345,000 tons of sugar worth $21,500,000. Then Mikoyan moved in. His theme was to identify Russia and Cuba as comrades fighting the same fight against the U.S. and capitalism. Said Mikoyan...
...Mikoyan, whose government has not had diplomatic relations with Cuba since 1952, pointedly called for strengthening "economic, cultural and other types of relations." During Mikoyan's week-long stay, he planned to invite Castro to Moscow, and confer at great length...
...Boarded by Pirates." Was Mikoyan boldly grabbing Cuba? New York's Senator Kenneth Keating heatedly called Cuba "a ship boarded by pirates." But official U.S. policy toward Cuba, as written by President Eisenhower, is to keep calm and wait it out, letting the Cuban people, who have a long history of hating totalitarianism, handle their own problem. Amidst signs of Mikoyan's success there were counter-signs that Cuban love of liberty was at work. The student demonstration was a blow at Castro, and the perils implicit as Mikoyan courted Cuba were the topic of many a sidewalk...