Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There they were, shoulder to shoulder, about as disparate as a pair could be. The business-suited pragmatist and the fatigue-clad revolutionary. Mikhail Gorbachev and Fidel Castro. New thinking and old orthodoxy. Castro talked the most, but Gorbachev had the last word. He coolly rejected Castro's policy of exporting revolution, a central tenet of the Cuban leader's 30-year rule. Until a very few years ago, Moscow's leaders too preached worldwide support for wars of national liberation. But Gorbachev's words in Havana seemed intended to reinforce his professed determination to replace such vaporous ideology with...
...commanding presence that Gorbachev has been able to exert on the world stage has helped shore up his power at home. This week he is again on the road. In his visit with Cuba's Fidel Castro, who is no fan of perestroika or glasnost, the Soviet leader will have a chance to show whether his rhetoric about new thinking translates into taking concrete steps toward easing tensions in Central America. Afterward, he plans to go to London to see if Margaret Thatcher still believes, as she once said of Gorbachev, that "we can do business together...
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...Castro and Gorbachev signed a 25-year bilateralaccord, which the Cuban news agency Prensa Latinasaid dashes all speculation about a rift betweenHavana and Moscow and ratifies their "traditionalrelations...
...despite a show of friendship between thecharismatic leaders of the two communist allies, aseries of arrests in Havana yesterday underscoredthe differences between the pragmatic liberalismespoused by Gorbachev and the tight control stillexercised by Castro 30 years after he led aguerrilla army to victory over a right-wingdictatorship