Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter appears to be flinging about foreign policy ideas with abandon. At his first news conference, he ticked off points for strategic arms talks with Russia. He made personal contact with Soviet dissidents. During the great phone-in he reiterated his intention to try to normalize U.S. relations with Cuba. Last week Carter was at it again...
...Uganda's Idi Amin detained Americans. (Answer: Keep cool.) Pete Belloni of Denver asked if there would soon be a 25?-a-gal. tax on gasoline. (No.) Mark Fendrick of Brooklyn wondered if his baseball team, the Yankees, would be allowed to play an exhibition game in Communist Cuba. (Perhaps.) Phyllis Dupere of Rehoboth, Mass., asked if Jimmy Carter would be willing to sign on for a space-shuttle mission. (He's "probably too old to do that," but Amy might some...
...Cuba, Cuba, Cuba! The question is always Cuba, not the military might of the West behind South Africa. No African country or combination of African countries could be a military threat to South Africa. Yet France and others continue to arm South Africa. Why is the U.S. so worried about tiny Cuba? Or is Cuba being used as a cover-up to arm South Africa? I tell you, brother, if South Africa uses its army to prevent Rhodesia from becoming free, then we have the right to ask for support from anywhereelse-and from much bigger powers than Cuba...
...ambassador. They took hostage a dozen leading businessmen and members of Somoza's government, including his Foreign Minister and ambassador to Washington. Swallowing his pride, Somoza negotiated the ministers' release, paid the guerrillas $1 million, and let them and 15 imprisoned FSLN members fly to Cuba. But then he declared martial law, which is still in force, and set out to crush the Sandinistas, who have received support, training and some arms from Castro's Cuba...
...press conference last week, Carter acknowledged that the Soviets had a point. "Obviously," he said, "there are deprivations of human rights even more brutal than the ones on which we've commented up to now." He singled out, in varying degrees of guilt, Uganda, South Korea, Cuba-and the U.S. Scores of other nations as well, many of them staunch U.S. allies, have systematically violated human rights while Washington looked the other way. The U.S., said a recent congressional study, has too often been guilty of "embracing governments which practice torture and unabashedly violate almost every human rights guarantee...