Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publicity bonanza, while displaying little regard for the unfortunate consequences of attacking his own government in unfriendly countries. Barging off into four foreign capitals, the black minister assailed the U.S. role in the region. He negotiated for the release of prisoners. He even invited a head of state, Fidel Castro, to visit the U.S. As happened before his trip to Syria last January, when he won the release of captured American Navy Flyer Lieut. Robert Goodman, critics accused Jackson of violating the Logan Act of 1799, which makes it a crime for any private citizen to try to influence...
...agile Jackson, flirting with the double danger of diplomatic and political disaster throughout the hectic week, ended it with some claims to success. He calmed the Farrakhan issue by disavowing the renegade minister's hateful words and returned to Washington with 48 men freed from Castro's prisons: 22 Americans jailed for alleged criminal offenses, mostly related to drugs, and 26 anti-Castro Cubans who were granted entry into the U.S. (see following story...
...Castro, in olive-drab fatigues and puffing on a cigar, greeted Jackson with a warm handshake, but not the traditional abrazo, at Havana's Jose Marti Airport. "He said he wanted to embrace me," Jackson explained later. "But it was a kind of historic moment, and both of us wanted to deal with substance and not get sidetracked by symbolism...
...Cuban Marxist and the American Baptist minister talked for more than eight hours on Tuesday in Castro's Palace of the Revolution. "There was a lot of common understanding," Jackson reported. "He's in the Third World, and I have a Third World experience growing up in America ... a lot of experience in suffering and exploitation. We identify with a lot of the same people in Africa and Central America." The two talked about religion. "I felt he ought to be more pronounced in his support of the church." Jackson also told Castro that he "would...
...bombshell." Their wait was interrupted by a lavish reception, where Soviet wine, roasted piglets and hot and cold lobster were served. It was after midnight when the press conference finally began, and there was no bombshell. Instead, Jackson _read off a list of the points on which Castro had agreed, few of which were really new. The Cuban leader, Jackson said, was willing to exchange ambassadors with the U.S. and to start talks soon on whether he would take back any of the Cuban criminals who had come to the U.S. in the boat exodus from Mariel in 1980. Most...