Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most surprising development was the disclosure that the Soviets had, in the past month or so, delivered 20 MIG-23 Flogger jets to Cuba. One version of this plane can deliver nuclear weapons. If this is the model now in Havana's hands, the U.S.S.R. has seriously violated the 1962 Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement that ended the Cuban missile crisis. The Soviet leader pledged not to give Cuba offensive weapons...
Jimmy Carter merely ordered resumption of high-altitude SR-71 reconnaissance flights over Cuba; he had stopped these missions after taking office because they had irritated Cuba's Fidel Castro. From the SR-71 's photos, experts will be able to determine whether Cuba's Floggers can carry a nuclear payload. Meanwhile, a group of U.S. Senators visiting Moscow asked Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin about the MiG-23s, noting that their presence in Cuba might hurt the chances of the Senate's ratifying a strategic arms limitation treaty. Kosygin snapped at his visitors that he "didn...
Walters, herself a 1974 Time magazine leader of the future, considers her interviews with Cuba's Fidel Castro. Israeli Prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the Shah of Iran her best. Her November 1977 interview with Begin and Sadat, the first time in modern history that leaders of the two countries had been interviewed together, was a "forecast of things to come," Walters said...
...target of the underworld. He said the Mafia had put a $10,000 price on his head because he was resisting Mafia drug pushing (the FBI expresses polite skepticism about this). Then Newton disappeared, in part to avoid the charges against him. He surfaced a year later in Cuba, and there he lived for the next two years, working in a cement factory...
Cuban President Fidel Castro, too, has been badly embarrassed by the increasingly direct role his forces have been playing in the battle against the independence fighters that Cuba helped to train. Not so long ago, Castro proclaimed that the Eritrean struggle was a ''legitimate national liberation war" that Cuba would support to the bitter...