Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuba, the mood changed to one of confusion. Kosygin's trip coincided with a sudden series of unusual developments. There was Fidel's planned trip to Santiago this week to help Salvador Allende celebrate his first anniversary as Chile's President. Parked barely a quarter-mile from where Kosygin's Ilyushin-62 set down was a far larger American Airlines 747 commercial jet that had been hijacked to Cuba with 229 passengers during a New York-to-Puerto Rico flight; passengers and hijacker alike were booked into the Havana Libre Hotel (the former Havana Hilton...
...Kosygin's four-day itinerary included a visit with Cuban workers during which he was presented with a hard hat to go with his Indian headdress. Two days were spent in discussions at the Palace of the Revolution, followed by a 460-mile flight to Santiago de Cuba. The plane arrived two hours late in a driving rainstorm. Nothing more momentous happened. Then had Kosygin come only to bolster Fidel's feelings? The best guess was that the Soviet Premier, who keeps watch over Moscow's foreign economic arrangements while Leonid Brezhnev supervises its broader foreign relations...
Apparently no formal agreement of the sort that Soviet Party Leader Brezhnev pushed for in Paris was sought in Havana; none was needed, given Cuba's heavy dependence on Moscow's aid and favor. U.S. eavesdroppers, however, were puzzled by one bit of banter monitored over Havana radio. Visiting a state factory near Havana, Kosygin demurred at Castro's invitation to speak. "Please say a few words," pleaded Castro. Kosygin's nyet finally turned into a very grudging da. "Comrades," he told the crowd through an interpreter, "you see how your Premier gets...
Actually, Russia wanted a bit more in Cuba, Ulam maintains. In the forties, Germany--and to a lesser degree. Japan--had loomed as the major threat. But by the sixties, another villain had walked on stage. One of the great ironies of history is that the Communist victory in China, which Americans eyed as an unprecedented calamity, turned out to be an even greater blow for the Communist comrades in the Soviet Union. By 1962, the Soviets feared China as much as Germany, China, along with Germany, was the target of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty that Khruschchev hoped would emerge...
Eventually, Phillips was rewarded with a choice assignment: duty in Harlem, where the payoffs are the biggest in the city. He soon was on cordial terms with gamblers known as Joe Cuba, Ted Cigar, the Gimp, the Gout and Spanish Raymond. He recalled his first meeting with a gambler called Eggy. "He walked over to the car and he says, 'Are you the new men?' We said, 'Yes, we are.' He says, 'You get $20 a day. Is that all right? We take care of the men who were here before you, we take care...