Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STRATEGICALLY, AS HAS BEEN SAID so often, the policy makes no sense. Whatever the ideological leanings of the rebels--and usually they lean toward the full stomach and the healthy body--we push them towards the idiot inflexibilities of Russia. We did it to Cuba; we are doing it to Nicaragua; almost surely we will do it to El Salvador, and then Guatemala, and then Honduras, and on and on. Poor countries need someone to help them out, and though the Cuban example has proven that reliance on Moscow and a totalitarian economy is not fiscally sound (and there...
...blame South Florida for drug traffic. After all, there's an estimated $50 billion market of eager users. You can't blame the Cubans for Miami's woes. After all, who botched up the Bay of Pigs and then virtually guaranteed Soviet hegemony in Cuba? You can't blame Haitians for "America fever." After all, it's the same disease that emptied half of Ireland, Scandinavia, numerous German principalities, southern Italy and southern Poland onto these shores. There are social and historical patterns at work here. Please don't blame South Florida...
...early emphasis on forging a strategic anti-Soviet consensus in the region has been balanced by giving more attention to resolving the Palestinian question. Latin-American policy has long been dominated by concern over El Salvador, which Washington charged was being threatened by leftist rebels whose support came from Cuba and Nicaragua. In a meeting with Nicaragua's Foreign Minister last week, Haig slightly modified the Administration's harsh rhetoric about that country's arms buildup and spoke of a possible normalization of relations between the U.S. and the left-wing government there. For such efforts, Haig...
...totalitarianism" of the Nicaraguan regime, the presence of some 1,500 Cuban military advisers in the country and the role of Nicaragua in supporting the left-wing guerrillas in El Salvador. Haig is also irked by Nicaragua's own heavy arms buildup, which he believes is sponsored by Cuba and the Soviet Union. As one U.S. official put it, the buildup threatens to turn the tiny republic (pop. 2.7 million) into "a superpower in Central American terms...
...major expense for the Classics each year, ahead of uniforms and game balls, is the almost-annual spring trip. Though last year's travel plans fell through, the Classics have had previous trips to Portugal, Puerto Ricca and Morocco. Two years ago they traveled to Cuba, where they played four games against the Cuban Olympic team ("They smugged us," says Campbell). This year's Classics are planning a trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, where they'll play a series of university and club-level squads and possibly even conduct a short basketball clinic...