Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ethiopia's despotic military rulers, who are struggling to hold together the empire of the late Haile Selassie, whom they deposed in 1974. On the other are the 4 million people of Eritrea, Ethiopia's northern province. But also involved in the drama are the Soviet Union, Cuba, most of the Arab states, and the U.S.-and at stake is who will eventually control the strategic oil routes of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean...
...Somalis' irritation is nothing compared to the bitterness of the Eritreans, who once received help from both the Soviets and the Cubans. Says an E.L.F. officer who was trained in Cuba: "All my feelings about Cuba have changed. I hate them, and that goes for the Russians too. The Arabs have proven themselves to be our brothers. That's why we are a democratic revolution, and not a Communist...
...corps), a community that pays compulsive, excessive attention to every blip of seeming success or failure. But in the past few weeks the President has been handed setbacks by a Congress reluctant to endorse his planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Korea and authorize U.S. participation in loans to Cuba, Indochina and several African nations. Said one senior State Department official: "I'm very worried about this congressional problem. These recent ones we were supposed to win. We haven't even come to the tough ones...
...taking it easy after adventures such as her 1962 trip to the World Disarmament Congress in Moscow. But the deception is short-lived. She says her time is more her own now but she still gives lectures about the history of the women's movement, her journeys to China, Cuba, and Russia, and her ongoing work for civil rights and world peace...
...either Peckinpah is not whispering enough on this movie, which is being shot in Cuba-Cuba, N. Mex.-or he is whispering too much. Or perhaps it is a combination of boredom, dust and the New Mexico sun. At any rate, Peckinpah should have had the rest of the beer because, whatever the problem, the crew of his latest picture, Convoy, is threatening to reverse the usual procedure and quit before being fired. "Either Sam has gone mad or the rest of us have," says a wardrobe man. Adds a cameraman: "This is a training ground for idiots...