Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primaries might be a reasonable way for the American Left to proceed. The other ways have not worked, radicalism is now at a low ebb, and this particular strategy has not been tried before. And unlikely plans which went against accepted theory have worked elsewhere--like in China and Cuba. It is time to re-think all aspects of the what-is-to-be-done part of American radicalism...
...information," declared Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Dada last week, as he proceeded to rattle off a lengthy list of potential invaders. They included neighboring Tanzania, Britain, Israel, Zambia, India, Rwanda, Sudan, "some countries in NATO," plus "two other countries"-one of them presumably China-all conspiring with Algeria, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Malawi and Guyana. But Ugandans should not worry, Amin added, because "the Uganda armed forces are prepared to deal with the threat," and he was in direct command...
...fractionating:" breaking the problem down into individual steps, then deciding at each stage what is wanted from the adversary and determining what he can reasonably be expected to give. Otherwise, governments often confuse taking a stance with seeking a solution. As illustration, Fisher cites the economic blockade of Cuba. "Suppose Fidel Castro called up the President and said, 'You win; send down your terms. Anything within the realm of reason, I will sign.' How many weeks would it require to figure out what the U.S. would like to have happen that it could reasonably expect to have happen...
...nude with-of course-Ernest Hemingway. The imaginary Hughes had originally barged in on Hemingway in Sun Valley, introduced himself as a bush pilot and taken the novelist "for a spin" in his B-25 bomber. Later, "fed up with everything," he went to see Hemingway in Cuba but confessed his identity. "And, well, his attitude changed, and he began to talk about money...I didn't want Ernest pumping me about money...
...Even among the small number of men who have been world champions in this century there have been polar differences. Emanuel Lasker, title holder from 1894 to 1921, was a philosopher, mathematician and thoroughgoing "square" by most psychological standards. His satisfactions from chess appear to have been entirely intellectual. Cuba's Jose Capablanca (champion from 1921 to 1927), who gave up the orderliness of a projected career in engineering to become a chess giant and his country's hero, enjoyed competition in other lines than chess, notably tennis, bridge and the pursuit of women. Alexander Alekhine...