Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israeli arms sales campaign also has political goals: to win new friends and to support governments that oppose the radical Arab states and particularly the Palestine Liberation Organization. In Central America the Israelis are actively wooing the regimes that are hostile to Cuba and Nicaragua, two countries that strongly support the P.L.O. The policy, in short, is based on the ancient adage that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend...
...Arbatov said, the Soviets "would have not only to add to our missiles in Western Europe but also to deploy them near American borders." The meaning of the final phrase was left deliberately vague, but Western arms analysts thought it unlikely that Moscow would risk putting missiles back in Cuba. A more probable alternative would be to station submarines armed with new sea-launched cruise missiles off the U.S. coast...
...combined, but the Soviet Union, which is pumping at the rate of 12 million bbl. per day. The U.S.S.R. is at present also the world's largest oil exporter (more than 3 million bbl. per day), and while most of its oil is sold to Eastern Europe and Cuba, more than 1 million bbl. per day go to Western Europe, and that figure is growing...
...goes only to church agencies and "is not given to political organizations." Actually, it has funded a number of secular groups that are unarguably political, and one-sidedly so. One recipient is the North American Congress on Latin America. Unapologetically leftist, it hardly ever finds anything to criticize in Cuba or Nicaragua. Two other groups funded by the churches helped set up the n Washington-based Committee in Solidarity with the People of E1 Salvador, a totally uncritical support group for the partly Marxist guerrilla forces in that nation. Shrugs one of its officials: "In a war, innocent people...
Trip sites in past years have included Korea, Cuba, and Mexico, whose president. Miguel de-la Madrid, graduated from the school's mid-career program...