Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Victor Valles Solan, too, feels passionately about his children. He has five of them, and in Cuba, where he once ran a small steel foundry, he began to feel that they were becoming hostages to the fortunes of the state. "We were allowed a ration of only one liter of fresh milk every other day," says Valles, 46, "but what is more important is that every day the children learned Communist doctrine in the schools, and going to church was never talked about. I realize that I am going to the United States with many illusions, but for me your...
...Thomas Mann, Artur Schnabel and Paul Tillich?that started the process of change. By special legislation in 1948, the U.S. began admitting more than 400,000 "displaced persons." Then came 32,000 refugees from the Hungarian revolt of 1956 and some 650,000 from Fidel Castro's seizure of Cuba in 1959. But only under President John F. Kennedy, great-grandson of an immigrant farmer from Ireland's County Wexford, did overall reform begin. According to the Immigration Act of 1965, which finally took effect...
...statement was his carefully calculated response to the main topic of the meeting, a report on the hemisphere by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission detailing allegations of violations by 16 nations. The commission also filed a 191-page separate report on Chile and an 85-page brief against Cuba (which was finished too late to be included on the agenda). The OAS charge against Chile cited numerous examples of people murdered, tortured and unlawfully arrested by the regime of Chilean President Augusto Pinochet...
...anything, the report on Cuba was even tougher; it claimed that the Castro regime had set up a network of prison camps similar to Stalin's infamous Gulag Archipelago. Kissinger in his speech observed that the report "confirmed our worst fears of Cuban behavior...
...member states refused to attend. Cuba has boycotted OAS meetings since the early 1960s, and Mexico objected because Chile was the host...