Word: cuba
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some notables sent their regrets. Cuba's Fidel Castro said he was busy, and so did North Korea's Kim II Sung and Uganda's Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada. Among those who did gather in Colombo: Viet Nam's ascetic Premier Pham Van Dong, Libya's mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, India's stately Indira Gandhi, Cyprus' black-bearded Archbishop Makarios...
...also gave countries like Cuba* an opportunity to define neutralism in a distinctly pugnacious way. "Simple noncommitment to military blocs," said Deputy Prime Minister Carlos Rafael Rodriguez of Cuba, should not qualify a country for membership among the nonaligned. Rodriguez pushed instead for the idea of "international solidarity" as "a permanent duty of the peoples committed to revolution." By that he meant such things as Cuban military intervention in Angola, a type of international solidarity that Rodriguez said would "not be interrupted...
...increasing combativeness of nonaligned conference members is unlikely to alleviate that plight. Nonetheless, the host of their next conference, in 1979, will be Cuba...
Communist countries like China, North Korea, Cuba and others nevertheless have their networks of "labor reform" camps for "re-educating" dissidents. The harsh life of these camps, with their meager diets, minimum time for sleep and long hours of labor, can produce agony bordering on torture...
...other "expert" commentators came through admirably. Ken Sitzberger clearly distinguished the great dives from the merely good ones; Bill Russell delivered intelligent and humane analyses of the basketball games with casual grace; and Marty Liquori, drawing on a decade of running experience, alerted viewers to the explosive potential of Cuba's all but unknown Alberto Juantorena before he won the 800-meter race...