Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Side One finishes with "Indian Girl," a pleasantly poignant ballad with a fine horn arrangement by Old Stones associate Jack Nitzsche. Frankly, I can't get a handle on it--it seems to be a vague diatribe against Soviet imperialism and Fidel Castro. Which would make sense, since both Castro and Jagger were recently named to the list of the Ten Coolest People in the World*. Rivalry, then, would explain...
Side One finishes with "Indian Girl," a pleasantly poignant ballad with a fine horn arrangement by Old Stones associate Jack Nitzsche. Frankly, I can't get a handle on it--it seems to be a vague diatribe against Soviet imperialism and Fidel Castro. Which would make sense, since both Castro and Jagger were recently named to the list of the Ten Coolest People in the World*. Rivalry, then, would explain...
...Fidel Castro...
Chances are that he is right. Fort McCoy once was the gateway to a new life for Cubans fleeing Fidel Castro's island; almost 10,000 have passed through and been placed with American sponsors. Now it is a kind of prison, an extreme example of the difficulties the U.S. faces in assimilating the last of the 120,000 Cubans who have flooded the country since April, emblematic of some of the reasons for the despair that has driven a handful of refugees to hijack American airliners to Havana. The seventh U.S. hijacking in 26 days occurred last week...
Superficially, the Miami area might seem to be the best place for Cubans to settle. Some 500,000 Cubans began arriving there shortly after Castro took over Cuba in 1959, and today Hispanics constitute 38% of Dade County's 1.6 million population. The early arrivals managed to get along with the area's non-Latin whites (47%) and blacks (15%); indeed, the Cubans' energies helped to transform Miami from a stagnating tourist town into a vibrant trade and financial center. And the Cuban advance guard created a cosmopolitan atmosphere in which the new arrivals can feel culturally...