Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SENATOR EDWARD M. Kennedy '54's suggestion last week that the United States resume diplomatic relations with Cuba is a welcome call for a long overdue step in U.S. foreign policy. Kennedy's statement came in response to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50's earlier announcement that the U.S. was planning to ask the Organization of American States to lift the 14-year embargo on trade with Cuba, an action tantamount in itself to ending the embargo...
...surplus tanks. Czechoslovakia, whose famed Bren gun as well as the Skoda Works' howitzers made the country second only to Britain as a weapons merchant in the 1930s, has dropped from the big leagues. It sells some jet trainers to other Communist states and Syria, and mortars to Cuba; normally, however, Prague serves as a front for Moscow in politically sensitive transfers like the 1955 arms sale to Egypt?the first Communist penetration into the Middle East...
...buying spree when it obtained Mirages from France; these were the first supersonic warplanes in Latin America, except for Cuba's Soviet-supplied MIGs. For the next five years, the European arms salesmen shuttling across the Atlantic to woo South American customers were virtually unchallenged by U.S. competition. In 1973, after Europe had already sold more than $2 billion in war materiel to Latin America, the Nixon Administration gave in to the pleas of U.S. defense industrialists and ended the embargo...
...revolutionaries have been only technically alive, and characters that are only technically alive make for a fairly dead play. Tania does have moments of true vivacity, however, and these moments usually come--not surprisingly--when the cast is acting as a collective entity. When they sing "Que linda es Cuba" or chant "El pueblo--unido--jamas sera vencido" with what looks like genuine revolutionary fervor, they manage to capture some of the warm communal feeling that you might experience at a revolutionary summer camp, or, more likely, at a demonstration. But as this production of Tania proves, demonstrations are more...
...married, set the precedent for this emphasis and Coppola has created several new ones--Michael's son's first communion, the funeral of Vito's widow, Michael's appearance before a congressional committee, and, most bizarre of all, a long cloak, dagger and revolution sequence in pre-Castro Cuba...