Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known for his independent mind. Boston University President John Silber, whose hawkish and conservative views have stirred controversy on his campus, was born in Texas and taught philosophy there. Others on the all-male panel: Yale Economics Professor Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, a refugee from Castro's Cuba who nonetheless takes a generally liberal...
America is blessed by these immigrants. We can learn so much from them. My second-grade class this year has children from Jordan, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Cuba, the Philippines, Korea, Thailand and Lebanon; I also have Irish and Polish and English Americans, a first-generation Italian and a child from Sri Lanka. We all speak English. I tell them, "Keep your language and your customs, but learn American ways. You are the peacemakers of tomorrow and will build the bridge to better world understanding...
According to the Cloud's documents, the ship was on a perfectly legal mission, heading for Nigeria to unload its cargo. Although the Venezuelans initially thought the weapons could have been destined for Cuba or Nicaragua, the Nigerian embassy in Caracas and the ship's Greek owners confirmed the destination. That did not answer the question of why, for 62 days, no one bothered to search for the Cloud or claim its explosive cargo...
...Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz deplored the deaths and warned Nicaragua that the U.S. considers Honduras to be "of great importance." He added that "the large-scale shipments of arms to Nicaragua from the Soviet Union, sometimes direct and [sometimes] through Cuba, is not appreciated by us." Only a day earlier a defector from the Nicaraguan counterintelligence forces, Miguel Bolanos Hunter, had declared in Washington that Nicaragua was in the process of acquiring a Soviet air-defense system along with 80 MiG fighter planes. In a press conference arranged by the State Department, Bolanos also contended that the Nicaraguan...
DIED. Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, 64, former President of Fidel Castro's Cuba from 1959 to 1976, when Castro took over the job; by his own hand (he shot himself reportedly as a result of depression and a painful back ailment); in Havana. A dignified, rather bourgeois Communist, in contrast to the bearded, fatigue-clad rebel leaders, Dorticós chaired the country's main economic planning body and was the regime's No. 3 man, after the Castros, Fidel and his younger brother...