Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steady pressure on his opponent, trying to smoke him out as a snake-in-the-grass liberal in a state where conservatives abound. Symms focused his attack on Church's dovishness on foreign affairs, his support of the Panama Canal treaties and his occasional kindly remarks about Fidel Castro. Said Symms: "I say we must keep our commitments to our friends. Church favors throwing our friends to the alligators and hopes they'll eat us last." Stressing that he was conducting a "hometown campaign," Symms implied that his opponent was the darling of the Eastern liberals...
...Janice Castro...
...most prominent political family, had made some significant contributions to Jamaica: a minimum wage, free education, equal pay for women, newly built health centers and 40,000 units of low-income housing. But endemic poverty remained, and critics charged his administration with woeful mismanagement. His warm abrazo for Fidel Castro frightened the middle class as well as foreign investors. Soon Jamaica found itself with a severe brain drain and an inability to finance the increased cost of oil imports...
Sugar exports from the Western Hemisphere have also declined. Cuba's crop this year was raked by the rust fungus. The Cubans lost about 1 million tons of their 6.5 million-ton-harvest to the disease. As a result, the Castro government has cut its deliveries to the Soviet Union, which normally takes approximately half its crop, by about...
...assets amounting to about $3 billion. This means that $3 billion in Iranian assets cannot be removed from U.S. banks until the legal claims on them are resolved by American courts: This could take decades. Indeed, cases of U.S. claims against Cuban expropriation of American assets after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 are still awaiting settlement...