Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech to the National Association of Manufacturers in Washington, Reagan drew an ominous picture of worldwide consequences that would result from a Communist victory in El Salvador. "If guerrilla violence succeeds," he said, ". . .El Salvador will join Cuba and Nicaragua as a base for spreading fresh violence to Guatemala, Honduras, even Costa Rica. The killing will increase, and so will the threat to Panama, the Canal and ultimately Mexico." That, he added, would advance the aims of "Soviet military theorists [who] want to tie down our forces on our own southern border and so limit our capacity...
...Said a State Department official in Washington: "It's quite clear that the nonaligned movement is undergoing a process of genuine reappraisal and self-searching. There's serious concern among many members about the double standard and hypocrisy that have characterized many declarations on many issues under Cuba's leadership...
...nuclear weapons from vessels and bases in the Indian Ocean. Said Malaysian Prune Minister Mahathir bin Mohammed: "The Soviet Union claims to champion the cause of the weak and the oppressed, but it had no hesitation about marching into Afghanistan to prop up an unpopular regime." Meanwhile, Cuba's Castro railed against "criminal Yankee imperialism" and new CIA plots to assassinate him, while Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong attacked China for its collusion with the U.S. in a "policy of hostility" toward China's neighbors. China has never been a member of the nonaligned movement...
Silva's response to claims that the rebels are propagators of Marxist revolution for the Soviets or Cuba is a firm "It is not so." The FDR, he says, is a coalition of many parties and unions, including the Social Democrats, the Social Christians, the national union of technicians and professionals, only a few of which are Marxist...
...demand a devaluation of the cedi, Ghana's grossly overvalued currency, along with other stringent austerity measures. Any such agreement, however, could easily spark another coup by revolutionary elements within the military. The powerful radicals, says a former Ghanaian army officer, would "like to turn Ghana into a Cuba overnight and get rid of the last vestiges of private enterprise." As Rawlings vacillates between unpalatable alternatives, the influx of refugees brings not only the promise of serious food shortages but a dangerous infusion of unfulfilled expectations. Says returning Construction Worker Joseph Azah: "We left Ghana to escape rural poverty...