Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat of direct nuclear clash between the U.S. and Russia has all but vanished for the foreseeable future. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 taught Moscow how easy it is to slide from cold war gamesmanship toward white-hot holocaust, and the knowledge was profoundly sobering. The possibility of a sneak nuclear attack, while not entirely discounted, is pretty well ruled out by military men; the attacker could not himself escape destruction. Says Herman Kahn, the physicist and Government consultant who popularized the term "escalation": "Barring a blowup in Eastern Europe, there will be no confrontation with the Soviets...
...miles south of Camagüey. The Prime Minister of the republic is wearing fatigue pants, gloves, a sweaty, long-sleeved shirt and a sloppy sombrero. He is perspiring copiously and his beard is dripping. He slashes right and left at the stalks with a shiny machete as a Cuban radio reporter approaches with microphone in hand...
...weeks, Cuban billboards, radio and television trumpeted the need for volunteers, promising lavish vacations to champion choppers. "My dear," a husband chirruped to his wife on a Havana soap opera, "when I go to the cane field and really work for my country, all my aches and pains disappear." Every village, factory, business, union and government agency received a quota, and any Cuban who failed to heed the call risked losing his job. Out they came last week, 1,000,000 strong, nearly paralyzing by their absence every government agency and private business. In the swing with Castro were...
...Cuban airlift can handle only a trickle of the flood of Cubans who would leave for the mainland if they could. For those who are barred by Castro or lack the patience to wait as much as five years for a plane seat, there are other routes. Last week four Cubans hijacked a 43-ft. government mineral-resources boat and tootled into the Florida Keys. Seven others put into Marathon, Fla., in a 16-ft. sailboat, and the U.S. Coast Guard rescued an other twelve Cubans in a small craft just off the Cuban coast. But the week...
Since the twice-a-day flights began between Miami and Cuba's Varadero last December, more than 14,000 refugees have left, running the total number of Cuban refugees in the U.S. to 270,000. In some cases, Castro tried to smuggle in agents; he even tried to export a few lepers on the sly. But immigration screening has been tight, and few ringers have slipped past interrogators. Some 30% of the refugees have remained in South Florida, and other concentrations are around New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and New Orleans. The rest are scattered over the 50 states...