Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charges of possession of a homemade bomb and receiving stolen property. Paroled, he was later arrested and convicted of robbery and assault and sentenced to five years to life. He calls himself Cinque, after an African who led a successful uprising aboard a slave ship off the coast of Cuba...
...Western Hemisphere's wall of isolation around Fidel Castro's Cuba is beginning to crumble. At a meeting in Washington of Foreign Ministers from nations of the Organization of American States, the U.S. State Department announced that the Argentine subsidiaries of Ford, General Motors and Chrysler may now legally export some $80 million worth of autos and trucks to Cuba...
...writers a new self-confidence. While he remains a grand old anti-fascist liberal, most writers of subsequent generations have been more or less socialist. Some, like Pablo Neruda, put their life and art wholly at the command of the movement they support; some, like Jose Lezama Lima in Cuba, have differed with the revolutionists after giving them initial support; some, like Garcia Marquez, have kept away from direct political action yet still have served revolution in their writing...
Jorge I. Dominquez, assistant professor of Government, said yesterday that he does not expect the United States to drop its insistence on the trade boycott of Cuba as long as Nixon is president despite recent speculation raised by the State Department...
Kissinger's statement led some observers to speculate that the United States might be preparing to change its Cuban trade policy. The United States has supported the boycott of Cuba by the OAS since...