Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every five years to lay down OAS policy and give direction to the Council of OAS Ambassadors, which meets twice monthly in Washington. The foreign ministers have not met at all since 1954, except for one-shot meetings on such urgent matters as applying sanctions against Castro's Cuba. Among other reforms, José A. Mora, the able Uruguayan lawyer who serves as OAS Secretary-General, wants a meeting of foreign ministers at least once a year. "I cannot say that such a meeting might have foreseen or prevented the Dominican crisis," Mora said. "However, had the system provided...
Fidel Castro's Communist dictatorship fairly bristles with coastal emplacements, sea-scanning radar, patrolling helicopters and 45-m.p.h. komar-class Soviet torpedo boats. Yet whenever the mosquito navy of the anti-Castro exiles buzzes up to bite away at fortress Cuba, as it did in Havana harbor last week, the recruits behind Castro's hardware curiously seem to be looking the other...
...year-old Texas high-school student named Thomas Robinson to hijack a National Airlines DC-8 jetliner bound from New Orleans to Melbourne, Fla., with 84 passengers, including Christopher Kraft, flight director for NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston. Muttering that he wanted to go to Cuba to protest Castro's political prisoners, Robinson pulled two pistols, fired several shots into the plane's floor, but was subdued before he reached the cockpit...
Russia imposed sanctions on Yugoslavia in 1948 after Tito broke with the Comintern, but Tito survived. Arabs and Israelis embargo each other's products, but the results are hardly noticeable. In spite of U.S. sanctions, Cuba and Red China carry on. South Africa hardly realizes that it is being boycotted by 46 nations that are incensed at apartheid. The urge to trade is so strong that it usually can be dulled effectively only by outright war. Money talks louder than the flag...
...knees, and the longer that sanctions drag on the more impatient other nations will become to ignore them. Such, at least, has been the case in previous boycotts. South Africa, denied Indian jute, got all it needed from Pakistan. Businessmen find ways, moreover, to transship; U.S. goods have reached Cuba by way of Canada and Mexico...