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Cuba was Spain's first major colony in the New World, established in 1511, and it was the last major colony Spain relinquished 400 years later, after the Spanish-American War of 1898. Many Cuba experts see Spain's long, dogged attachment to the Caribbean island as one reason Cuba acquired what might be called an inflated sense ... Read More
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Apr. 27, 1962Helicopters beat low over Havana, and Russian-built MIG-19 sweptwing jets sent sonic booms thundering down the capital's seafront Malecon Drive. In every town along the 760-mile length of Cuba, the speechmakers mounted their platforms to trumpet victory to the assembled populace. The first anniversary of Fidel Castro's triumph over the haphazard U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs ...
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Sep. 17, 1979Soviet troops, Senate fury, and suddenly SALT is endangered
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Nov. 2, 1962(See Cover) For days and weeks, refugees and intelligence sources within Cuba had insisted that the Soviet Union was equipping its Caribbean satellite with missiles, manned by Russians, that could carry nuclear destruction to the U.S. But the reports were fragmentary and sometimes contradictory. And U.S. reconnaissance planes, photographing Cuba from the Yucatan Channel to ...
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Apr. 28, 1961CUBA (See Cover) Communiqué No. 4: The invading mercenary army which occupied Cuban territory for less than 72 hours has been completely crushed. The revolution has emerged victorious though paying a high toll in courageous lives of fighters who faced the invaders. A part of the mercenaries sought to leave the country by-sea in a ...
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Apr. 26, 1937In the somewhat banal white marble palace of the Pan-American Union in Washington last week gathered diplomats from 21 republics of the Western Hemisphere, to hear a somewhat banal Pan-American Day message from their Good Neighbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Beaming "with faith in the high destiny of the Americas," Good Neighbor Roosevelt spoke a smooth ...
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