Word: mikoyan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caves. After two weeks of palaver with Castro, Russia's Anastas Mikoyan kept delaying his departure; the world could have no notion about what mischief the two might have cooked up, but in his infrequent public pronouncements, Mikoyan echoed only the intransigent Castro line. The U.S. naval blockade of Cuba continued, but it seemed mostly a matter of form: so far. the U.S. has passed 48 of the 49 foreign ships that entered the blockade area on to Cuba without boarding. Government spokesmen said they were satisfied that Russia's "offensive" missiles have indeed been removed from Cuba...
When Fidel Castro publicly admitted "a well-founded reason for discontent" developing between Cuba and the Soviet Union, Mr. Mikoyan raced for Havana. By its lack of interest in this discontent, however, the Administration suggests that its ultimate aim is not to undermine Soviet control but simply to crush socialism, autonomous or not, in the Caribbean. It is hard to believe that the government, cherishing an image of monolithic Communism, is actually insensitive to the distinction...
...oversee the dismantling of the Soviet missiles. And last week, spokesmen for the Kennedy Administration still pledged that the U.S. would at least insist upon U.N. "presence" in Cuba to seek out any remaining Soviet missiles. But in Cuba, Castro reportedly continued to tell Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan that he would never submit to such inspection...
Enter the Salesman. U Thant returned from Cuba murmuring diplomatically that the talks had been "fruitful." With their strutting puppet causing an impasse, the Russians announced that Anastas Mikoyan, Khrushchev's First Deputy Premier and the U.S.S.R.'s most amiable salesman, would go to Cuba. There was an understandable notion that Mikoyan would lay down the law to Castro, ordering him to get out of the big boys' way. But on his way to Havana, Mikoyan stopped off in New York for chats at the U.N., declared that U.S. news stories about his visit to Cuba were...
...When Mikoyan landed in Havana, there was Castro to give him a whiskery embrace, and there were the children of Soviet embassy personnel to present bouquets to him and the Cuban leader, who held his as though it were a handful of plucked chicken feathers. The two men then disappeared into a government building to work out what Castro blandly described as "discrepancies." Mikoyan still went out of his way to praise Russia's troublesome Caribbean ally. "The Soviet people are with Cuba body and soul," he told a Cuban newspaper. "I, for my part, wish...