Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Open Borders. With similar high hopes, Carter continued taking steps to clear diplomatic channels that have long been closed. As evidence of the value he places on open borders, the Administration has officially ended bans on the use of U.S. passports to visit Cambodia, Cuba, North Korea and Viet Nam and on U.S. currency spending in Cuba. Last week the U.S. began negotiating on fishing regulations with Cuba - the first direct meetings between the countries since 1961. Carter announced that the U.S. and Viet Nam will reopen talks in Paris that might lead to establishing normal relations...
...performance in dealing with the Soviets, keeping U.S. defenses strong and increasing its prestige abroad. But 54% believe he has made a good start on improving U.S. relations with allies (only 10% disagree). Forty-six percent support his order removing travel restrictions on U.S. citizens to such countries as Cuba, North Korea and Viet Nam; 39% are opposed. On the other hand, the public heavily opposes (53% to 29%) giving the Panama Canal to Panama, even if the U.S. retains defense rights...
Fidel Castro's trip raised disturbing questions about Cuba's intentions in Africa-and, more important, those of the Soviet Union. To some extent, Castro's trip was undoubtedly an exercise in extending fraternal greetings to African regimes that he regards as sympathetic to Cuban socialism. But Castro's views about "exporting revolution" are too well known to be dismissed lightly. And as the fighting in Zaïre demonstrated last week, a relatively small fighting force, trained in the techniques of modern warfare, has an enormous capacity to destabilize young and fragile nations...
Echeverria's rhetoric and his apparent commitment to social change terrified the Mexican bourgeoisie. A group of American congressmen warned that Mexico was becoming a socialist country and that before long a new 'Red Cuba' would emerge south of the border. The general fear created by this situation caused the outflow of a considerable amount of capital, precipitating the devaluation of the peso last August from eight American cents to four. By this time nearly half of Mexico's labor force was out of work or underemployed, and inflation reached an annual rate of 25 per cent. In the three...
...down while serving as a fighter pilot, Hudson has a bittersweet interlude with the boy's mother (affectingly played by Claire Bloom) and decides to return to the U.S. On the way, he is fatally caught up in the smuggling of Jewish war refugees by small boat into Cuba...