Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Advisory for Advice. Always jealous of its prerogatives, real or not, the Senate is wistfully aware that its influence is nil in nuclear crises that demand in stant response, such as the Cuban confrontation in 1962. It is likely to pass the Fulbright resolution when the measure eventually comes up for a vote. While the resolution would have no binding power on the President, its passage would constitute an advisory to Johnson that the Senate would like to advise him more often...
Died. Brigadier General William Jefferson Glasgow, 101, West Point's oldest living graduate (class of '91), a Cavalry officer who chased Western outlaws in 1893, landed with the Cuban occupation force during the Spanish-American War in 1898, and rode after Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1916; apparently of a heart attack; in El Paso, Texas...
...cultural exchange on one side, while on the other Castro is stressing violent revolution. Venezuela's Moscow-lining Communist Party broke completely with Cuba four months ago, protesting Castro's stepped-up aggression. Last week the Organization of American States accused Castro of sending four armed Cuban regulars to the coast of Venezuela last May, the first overt and deliberate military invasion of one Latin American country by another since the Gran Chaco border war between Bolivia and Paraguay more than 30 years...
...boldest of the guerrillas is Antonio Negro, a Cuban who fought with Castro in the Sierra Maestra. A few weeks ago, Negro strolled into the small town of Saipuru, stole a truck and eight gallons of gasoline from a government-owned oil company, then fled with five soldiers as his prisoners. Last week a manifesto signed by Negro was making the rounds in La Paz, calling on Bolivians to make their nation a "strategic center of continental revolution." To win over peasants in the countryside, the guerrillas-apparently financed by Cuba-often pay double prices at the local stores...
...Trollope Ploy. As "case studies," the author retells seven of Kennedy's major foreign policy crises, from the Cuban missile confrontation to Viet Nam. There are no monumental disclosures, but a great many small touches based on firsthand observation. Hilsman describes how Bobby Kennedy devised the "Trollope ploy" in the touchiest moments of the missile crisis. It was named after "the recurrent scene in Anthony Trollope's novels in which the girl interprets a squeeze of her hand as a proposal of marriage." When Moscow seemed to be stalling about pulling the missiles out of Cuba, the White...