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Cuba. Castro is another topic that will not go away. The Kennedy Administration was stung by charges that it was reacting ineffectively to the Russian military presence in Cuba. New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating claimed that the Soviet's "mediumrange missile sites" remain. South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond declared that upwards of 100 ballistic missiles "with a 1,100-to 2,200-mile range" were stored in "underground facilities" in Cuba. Indiana's Republican Representative Donald C. Bruce said that he had information about some 40 "offensive missiles" still in Cuba...
...Stung by a succession of U.S. sales coups, the British are worried that their weapons eventually will be squeezed out of Europe, and that their technology, lacking outlets, will wither. The British had their first taste of things to come in 1956, when a batch of aging American F-84s was given to the reviving Luftwaffe, as one British reporter put it, "like free samples of detergent." One year later, despite a brand-new tank factory in Lancashire, Britain lost out to the U.S. M48 tank in bidding to equip West Germany's armored corps...
...What stung Kennedy most was not the near unanimity of Republican opposition but what he called the "handful" of Democrats (Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen slyly christened them "living profiles in courage") who had made defeat possible-actually a third of the Senate's Democrats. They included such prominent Democrats as Foreign Relations Chairman William Fulbright, Ace Investigator John McClellan, moderate Liberal Mike Monroney, former Vice Presidential Candidate John Sparkman, and Armed Services Chairman Richard Russell, as well as Hayden, Randolph and Kerr...
OAMS will not upset national sovereignties; its members preferred to settle for a league with more modest and attainable goals. Its chances of success are accordingly far greater than the glittering schemes of Kwame Nkrumah, the thwarted boss of Ghana who dreams of ruling the continent. Stung by his failure to win wide support, Nkrumah sent no envoy to the Lagos talks. Instead, he hastily convened a rival meeting of his own in Accra...
...Washington, Republican Senator Karl Mundt denounced Hong Kong's refusal to admit Red Chinese refugees as "one of the most atrocious acts in international history." Stung by the criticism, the Hong Kong Daily Mail publicly asked Senator Mundt what the U.S. would do if the Soviet Union suddenly allowed 300,000 hungry Russians a day to flood across the Bering Strait into U.S. territory. Senator Mundt stiffly replied that, in the event of Communist refugees flooding into the U.S., "we would receive and absorb as many as possible, and if unable to handle the problem, call on the free...