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Since there is little chance that the United States can trigger an internal revolt against Castro without meeting the oppositionof Latin America, it would be well for Kennedy and Nixon to admit that little can be done with Cuba while the American people are incapable of accepting any compromise. Castro may yet learn that he cannot impose unlimited drafts on the endurance and loyalty of the Cuban people, and any Cuban regime which hopes to carry out his ambitious social programs will need aid. But there will be no hope for at least a neutralist Cuba, accepting aid from both...
...nuclear war by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unsound militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies." He topped it off by warning against "a trigger-happy President in the White House...
Steppingstones? Nixon picked up Kennedy's trigger-happy charge on the first go-round, tossed it back with the reminder that the last three wars (World War I, World War II and Korea) had begun in Democratic Administrations. ("I do not mean by that that one party is a war party...
...assume its responsibilities. If we fight the U.N., well, we fight the U.N. We have delayed long enough." But as usual in the Congo, when the zero hour arrived, nothing happened. Mobutu and his men backed down, and the threatening Congolese soldiers at Lumumba's house relaxed their trigger fingers and began to doze on the lawn...
...Mistake. News from the bush country was uniformly bad. Two U.N. detachments-Liberians and Tunisians-fought off ambushes by Congo tribesmen near Luluabourg. In the mineral-rich province of Katanga, where anti-Communist Moise Tshombe rules with the support of Belgian businessmen, there was serious trouble. Tshombe's trigger-happy security forces raided the rebellious village of Luena, which supplies coal to feed the furnaces of the potent Union Miniére de Haut-Katanga. The troops reportedly "got out of control of their Belgian officers," bound the hands of 68 Baluba tribesmen and murdered them all with Sten...