Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also sold "a few hundred" automatic rifles to Fidel Castro in the late 1950s: "Fidel was wild about the Armalites," Cummings recalls...
Determined lobbying from Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau helped persuade Reagan to attend Cancún. But he had conditions: Cuba's Fidel Castro must not attend, the meeting should not be held before the Ottawa summit, and there must be no fixed agenda...
That is not a course many nations would consider. Certainly not the U.S., which not so long ago suffered through revelations about CIA plots to kill Castro. Says a State Department official: "Assassination as a tool of foreign policy is a repugnant idea to this Administration and to the American people." Quite apart from the moral caveat there is a practical reason for caution: Gaddafi's successor, wherever he is, could well be worse...
...delivering the first film interview with Sadat's successor, Mubarak. It was a masterly portrait of a strong adjutant struggling to fill the shoes of a giant, a mentor Mubarak admitted he is still unable to believe has left him. Many viewers felt the same way. -By Janice Castro. Reported by Janice C Simpson/New York
...spring of 1980, when thousands of Cubans were mobbing the port city of Mariel for their helter-skelter exodus to the shores of Florida, President Fidel Castro denounced the emigrants as escoria (scum). As if to ensure that he was at least partly correct, Castro added some convicts and mental patients to the Mariel horde. Indeed, of the 125,000 "Marielitos" who landed in Florida, 1,709 have been jailed by federal authorities as undesirables, and 587 more have been locked up until they can find sponsors. Nearly all the rest have settled in Dade County, which includes Miami...