Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diplomatic sleight of hand, Carter converted this protestation of innocence into a Soviet pledge. Said he: "Although we have persuasive evidence that the unit has been a combat brigade, the Soviet statements about the future noncombat status of the unit are significant." He admitted that Moscow has been building up its military presence in Cuba, contributing to "tensions in the Caribbean and the Central American region" and adding to the "fears of some countries that they may come under Soviet or Cuban pressure." But he concluded that the issue is "certainly no reason for a return to the cold...
...problem was how to repair the damage. For weeks the Administration pressed Moscow in behind-the-scenes negotiations to back down. But the Soviets would not budge. In a letter to Carter, Brezhnev promised only that the training unit would not change its function or status. No matter how distasteful, the Administration would have to accept the status...
...that the controversial Soviet forces were merely training Cubans. Said he: "You call it a brigade, we call it a training center." Of the Administration's "combat" contention, he said: "This charge is a complete comedy." He insisted every U.S. President since 1962 had known about the Soviet unit. In all those 17 years, he said, "there has been no change in the function or the number of the troops." He accused Carter of creating a "minicrisis" to bolster his domestic political fortunes. Railed Castro: "Carter has been dishonest, insincere, immoral, and he has been deceiving the American people...
...Hollis Hills, wanted to know whether there would be a danger of another Cuban missile crisis "if nothing works and the [Soviet] troops just stay" in Cuba. The President's reply: "We are now trying through diplomacy to get the Soviets to eliminate the combat nature of this unit. I don't know yet whether we will succeed. If we do not succeed, we will take appropriate action to change the status quo." What did he mean by appropriate action? Replied Carter: "How to deal with this successfully is not an easy task...
...clarity and certainty, and at the same time not offending those Catholics who disagree sharply with him. He still finds the American form of church dissent something of a puzzle. Explained a Vatican source: "In the Pope's native Poland, the church is a compact, tightly knit unit, holding together against the Marxist enemy. It is hard for him to understand those Americans who disagree publicly and loudly with church teaching, yet consider themselves good Catholics...