Word: carmelo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Malta's Prime Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, for his part, found himself in a dilemma over Cairo's request that his government extradite the sole surviving hijacker, a 22-year-old Palestinian who gave his name as Omar Mohammed Ali Rezaq, to Egypt. For Bonnici, going along with the Egyptians threatened Malta's close ties to Libya. He refused, arguing that the crimes involved had taken place on Maltese soil and that Egypt does not have an extradition treaty with Malta...
When Washington first imposed a trade embargo on Cuba in October 1960, it hoped to force Havana to abandon Marxism. Today, nearly 25 years later, the Cuban government is still Marxist, and it is one of Moscow's closest allies. The example is mentioned by Carmelo Mesa-Lago, director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, as evidence that trade sanctions are at best only temporarily damaging. In the long run, he believes, the embargo against Nicaragua "will not work. History shows it did not work in the case of Cuba...