Word: misreadings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a Haitian Revolutionary Force may be training in Cuba. Whether this is so or not, those who line up on the side of change in Haiti will have five million good reasons to feel confident. Those who oppose it by upholding Duvalier in the name of progress have misread the lessons of Cuba. Duvalier is every bit as good a friend as Fulgencio Batista. And he will leave us with enemies as resentful and recalcitrant as Fidel Castro...
...ways during recent weeks. President Kennedy has expressed his concern that the U.S. citizenry is not yet prepared to make the sacrifices and take the risks required by the cold war. That concern can only have helped shape his policies. But there is a danger that the President has misread the U.S. mind-and that the American people are in fact more than ready and more than willing to take whatever action is necessary in the international struggle against Communism. Last week, after sampling public opinion in their areas, TIME correspondents across the U.S. reported two major facts as emerging...