Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caliente is dedicated to Carlos Santana, who Gato says has arrived at that place where "music is the memory of dream." Santana was born in Mexico, and his early musical efforts fused the sound of Latin America, Afro-Cuba and basic blues rhythm into a style that dazzled flower-powered San Francisco in 1967 at the debut of his band. They rivaled even the most luscious psychedelia of the time with their low key vocals and cosmic instrumentals. Their drums hammered out traditional rock while their guitars varied between folk, jazz and Jimi Hendrix. Santana made songs like "Jingo,"Evil...
...signal further his determination to speak out on the subject, Carter last week also linked the question of human rights to a possible rapprochement with Cuba. Now it remained to be seen whether he would turn his attention to friendly nations-Iran, South Korea, Chile, for example-where the rights of dissidents are hardly more tolerated than in the Soviet Union...
...finding tour, essentially, but with the aim of finding ways to nudge the confrontation states back to the conference table at Geneva. Next month Vance goes to Moscow for talks on arms limitation. After that, he hinted, will come a variety of other meetings-possibly including direct negotiations with Cuba. Later this month the President will send Washington Lawyer (and former Defense Secretary) Clark Clifford to Cyprus, to explore the possibilities for a settlement between Greek and Turkish Cypriots...
...under the title The Lumiere Years, these shorts apparently turned up after seventy years sitting in a trunk in the loft of an abandoned garage in Southern France. The shots of the Paris Exposition, the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and a film of President McKinley preparing to invade Cuba constitute some of America's earliest documentary by two of movies' first greats...
...shore of the island, or perhaps he made an empty offer as a gambit in the forthcoming debates over Puerto Rico in the United Nations Decolonization Committee. He gave good reason to suspect the latter when he used his arrival at the economic summit as an occasion for warning Cuba that the United States would never relinquish Puerto Rico. If we take him at his word, he acted out of sympathy with Puerto Rico's aspirations--no doubt, as he saw them through the manicured hedges of the Dorado Beach Hotel...