Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic investment grew in Cuba in the 1950s, so did the powers of the brutal Batiste dictatorship. Castro's revolution in 1959 gave Cuba its first experience as a nation independent of the United States...
Earlier, in an interview with the Soviet news agency Tass, Gorbachev signaled that he and Cuban President Fidel Castro are prepared to work for improved East-West relations, indicating some softening in the Cuban leader's anti-Americanism...
Gorbachev told Tass a central topic of histalks with Castro on Monday was the "new thinking"in Soviet foreign policy--an approach that seeksto ease world tensions by reducing militarycommitments abroad and negotiating settlements ofregional disputes that threaten to bring thesuperpowers into conflict...
Gorbachev emphasized in the Tass interview thathe and Castro spoke about the greaterunderstanding being shown by the West...
...talks also addressed Central America, andGorbachev and Castro agreed the region's problemscannot be solved militarily, Tass said...