Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yasser Arafat claims a Palestinian state would be "very democratic, liberal, nonaligned" [Feb. 8]-just like the states supporting him now: democratic Iraq, liberal Iran, nonaligned Cuba...
...topics they discussed included post-mortems on the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the U.S.-Soviet showdown over missiles in Cuba, the building of the Communist Wall in East Berlin and the fateful decisions to send more U.S. military advisers into South Viet Nam. As the tapes ran, Kennedy wrestled with civil rights in the South and worked with his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to pressure Mississippi officials into accepting James Meredith as the first black student at the University of Mississippi...
...year) in all of Latin America, and Washington is committed to support the Duarte government at a time when its survival is by no means cer tain. But the Administration fears that any slackening of U.S. support might lead to a major opportunity in Central America for Soviet-sponsored Cuba, abetted by the neighboring, Marxist-dominated Sandinista government of Nicaragua. U.S. policy is therefore to aid and encourage the Salvadoran government in its anti-guerrilla efforts, while simultaneously supporting economic and political reforms...
...seeking to explain why he felt compelled to try, yet again, to attempt linkage, that Haig said, "The situation in Poland casts a long and dark shadow" across the whole range of relations. True enough. But so does the situation in Afghanistan. And in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Cuba and the U.S.S.R. itself, all of which are under less blatant but hardly less brutal forms of martial law. The very nature of the Soviet system and the exercise of Soviet power cast a long, dark shadow across U.S. policy. So far linkage has been just another word in the vocabulary...
...standards. By the special values that won Heinrich Böll the Nobel Prize, Tolm's fate as a prisoner of his own wealth and station is a model of contemporary political and moral confusion. The evidence surrounds him. Capitalists eat caviar from Russia and smoke cigars from Cuba; socialists spend an evening playing Monopoly, and the village priest sleeps with his housekeeper. Closer to home, Tolm's son Rolf is a former radical who now grows vegetables and lives with Katharina, mother of their son Holger, who is named after a dead German terrorist...