Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly bearable 12.7% as the year ends. February is also the month when the U.S. hockey team's victory over the Soviets ignites national pride. But in April the U.S. boycotts the Summer Olympic Games to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In May Cuban refugees flee Castro, and the U.S. greets them at first with an "open arms" policy, then a state of emergency in Florida, then a closing of the open arms?the entire pilgrimage eventually capped off with riots at Eglin Air Force
...government that denies all human rights. For example, Cuba. There was no question about Batista, and violations there of human rights in our eyes. But can we say the people in Cuba are today better off than they were before? In no way. There are no human rights under Castro. There are no human rights under the Soviet Union, as we see them. Now how can we justify making every concession in the world to have détente with the Soviet Union at the same time that we use the mailed fist, you might say, against some smaller country...
William E. Colby, 59, former CIA director, repenting the agency's use of organized-crime figures in an early '60s Castro assassination plot: "You couldn't find a more inept crowd than the Mafia...
...Janice Castro...
...Janice Castro. Reported by Elizabeth Rudulph/New York