Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First Agnes crashed through Florida and Cuba and seemed about to peter out as it moved inland. But then it turned out to sea off Virginia, recharged its depleted energies and slammed back onto the northeast mainland, already saturated by a week of nearly incessant rains. By the weekend, at least 96 people were dead and more than 120,000 had been evacuated. Five states-Florida, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia-had been declared disaster areas, and damage estimates ran into the billions. Robert M. White, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, pronounced the flooding produced...
...Pigs operative, who has since built a ripe career as a soldier of fortune. The other men arrested were anti-Castro Cubans: Eugenio Martinez, 49, a Miami real estate broker employed by Barker's firm, and Virgilio Gonzalez, 46, a barber before he fled Castro's Cuba who is now, interestingly enough, a locksmith. It was suspected that two lookouts escaped. Late in the week McCord was freed on bail. but the other four remained in jail...
Moscow's next ranking Communist guest will be Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro. Some time this month he is due to begin a two-week tour of the Soviet Union, climaxing a two-month hegira that has already carried him through six African and East European countries. During his talks in the Kremlin, Castro will doubtless discuss continuation of Soviet aid to Cuba (more than $1.5 million per day) with-just conceivably-a new emphasis by the Soviets on what Cuba can do for them in the new era of détente...
Though officials in Washington and Warsaw denied it, it was an intriguing theory. On the formal diplomatic level, U.S. policy is still frosty toward Castro -and toward an attempt by Peru's left-wing military regime to reinstate Cuba in the Organization of American States. Last week the OAS voted 13 to 7 (with three abstentions) against a Peruvian proposal that each member be permitted to decide independently whether to resume relations with Havana. Along with most OAS members, Washington is opposed to a reconciliation unless and until Castro agrees to behave more "responsibly"-that is, to stop sending...
...ever toward the U.S. and the OAS, longtime observers now sense that his tune could change quickly-if Moscow were to order it and if Washington were to come across with an agreement to, say, give up the Navy's obsolete base at Guantànamo and invite Cuba back into the lucrative U.S. sugar quota system...