Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goes on all the time, especially over American Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ), which extend several hundred miles along U.S. borders and are closely monitored for national security reasons. Since last January, 77 Soviet planes have entered the Atlantic Coast ADIZ while on nonstop flights from the U.S.S.R. to Cuba. Their aim has been to pick up U.S. radar frequencies and to record how long it takes for U.S. fighters to respond. U.S. reconnaissance planes have done the same thing near the U.S.S.R. border and have triggered the firing of more than 900 Soviet ground-to-air missiles...
Most Marielitos have found life in the U.S. rough going. Many have only a halting command of English and few marketable skills. Moreover, Cuba's cradle-to-grave welfare system left many refugees ill prepared for America's ways. "In Cuba the state takes care of you," says Artist Luis Valdés in the flawless English he learned listening to U.S. radio stations. "Here you have to struggle...
That effort seems well worth it to the boat people's artists, who find their new freedom thoroughly rewarding. Guitarist Juan de Dios Jose was denied a musician's license in Cuba because he refused to join the Communist Party. In Hialeah, a suburb of Miami, he plays gigs at local restaurants and is completing training in auto-body repair. "It's like a dream come true, being able to say what I feel," he comments. Says New York-based Novelist Reinaldo Arenas, who drove 26 hours to the festival to avoid any chance of being...
...thus may slightly ease pressure on U.S. interest rates. In addition, the settlement improves the agency's image by paring down its roster of deadbeats. Revolutions like Iran's have resulted in bad loans, including $26 million to pre-Mao China and $36 million to pre-Castro Cuba, that are unlikely ever to be paid...
...Olympics. Last week the Chicago athlete had to give back three gold medals he won at the Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela, after the biggest drug bust in the history of international amateur sporting competition. In all, nine medalists and five additional athletes from the U.S., Canada, Cuba and other nations were disqualified because tests showed that they used anabolic steroid drugs or ephedrine stimulants, which are banned by the International Olympic Committee. After the test results, Michels was also automatically suspended for one year by the United States Weightlifting Federation, making him ineligible for the Los Angeles Games...