Word: cuba
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...EMBARGOES: If a war takes place, anything is possible. The important thing is to prevent war. But Arabs did not invent this boycott weapon. How many years have you employed a boycott against Cuba? I'm not an advocate for Castro, but you have imposed this weapon on a very small country. I am not saying that with a war an oil boycott would be inevitable...
...coercive." Last week Argentine Foreign Minister Alberto Vignes announced that his country was postponing "indefinitely" the March meeting of OAS foreign ministers. Vignes was partly motivated by a reluctance to host a conference whose outcome-on the question of regularizing relations between the hemisphere and Fidel Castro's Cuba-was likely to fail. But the trade act gave him a handy excuse...
...meeting continued after lunch and lasted for another hour of questions and answers. The Cubans were interested in inflation in the United States, the manifestations of racism, North Americans' dissatisfaction with unemployment, and the U.S. working class's opinion of Cuba. After the last 15 minutes of the session, a waiter brought in more refreshments. Cigarette packages were passed around and two new boxes of cigars were opened. To complete the protocol, representatives from the Cuban officials and from our delegation stood up to exchange thanks and compliment one another...
Dwight N. Hopkins '76 spent two weeks this summer in Cuba with a special delegation of 19 black students invited by the Cuban government and orgainized by several American black student groups...
...editors neatly dodge the fact that the U.S. taxpayer already pays for very considerable "use of force" in the Middle East. The Israeli armed forces, which have been engaged in armed conflict for the past quarter-century, are really no different from CIA-financed operations in Iran, Laos, Cuba or elsewhere. The only difference is one of size. Idealists that they are, one can only assume the editors advocate immediate cessation of all military aid to Israel, so that the U.S. won't be using any force in the Middle East. Why don't they come...