Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fidel Castro likes to rail at the evils of colonialism, but Cuba itself is in one vital respect the complacent ward of an imperialist nation. Without aid from its superpower sugar daddy, the Soviet Union, the Cuban economy would sink beneath the Caribbean waves...
Kennedy demanded that the weapons and installations be dismantled and removed from Cuba under the supervision of U.N. on-site observers. In what seemed to be a thinly veiled ultimatum to the Soviets, Kennedy added: "It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States requiring a full retaliatory response on the Soviet Union." The next day, the Organization of American States gave its unanimous backing to the U.S. position. To many, the world appeared...
...region and the broadening of economic ties. Many regimes in the Caribbean area - including the governments of Jamaica, Grenada, Guyana and Nicaragua - look to Cuba as both a societal role model and a source of aid. To Castro himself, Cuba is a progressive, socialist and "Latin African" nation whose revolutionary achievements give it a right to act as a spokesman for the Third World...
...summer vacation is supposed to give people a lift, then the nation's lawmakers might just as well have skipped the August recess and stayed in Washington. Said Massachusetts Republican Representative Silvio Conte as he returned to the Hill last week with his colleagues: "Congress is in an ugly mood. The members have been home and they got the message." Said New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable: "The mood is one of grim determination. The members are ready to get on with it and are looking for a tough fall...
...most notable sign was a frontpage report in the New York Times, immediately picked up by wire services and printed throughout the nation, that the Senator had talked during the congressional recess with his mother Rose, 89, and his estranged wife Joan, and that both had assured him of their support if he decided to seek the presidency. Each had earlier made separate public statements to the same effect. What was different was that the Times had got its story from Kennedy's Washington office. This was taken as evidence that Kennedy now wanted to publicize his family...