Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next to crime and drugs, South Florida's most pressing problem is refugees. The 125,000 Marielitos who fled Cuba last year have strained the area's economy and aggravated its racial tensions, perhaps irretrievably. Nothing infuriates South Floridians as much as the deeds of the convicts and mental patients Castro sent along with the rest of the fleeing Cubans. Officials estimate that as many as 5,000 Marielitos are hard-core criminals. This year 53 refugees have been arrested in Miami for murder, and many more have been jailed for rapes and robberies. Fifty-one Marielitos themselves have been...
...Salvador. Haig wants increased U.S. military aid to the government of José Napoleon Duarte, which is stalemated in its war against leftist insurgents. The Secretary indicated that he was considering military steps, perhaps including naval action, to halt the flow of arms to the rebels from Cuba and Nicaragua. In what several Administration officials call ''an inversion of roles," Weinberger and his Pentagon aides have opposed Haig's State Department on that question, arguing that U.S. military involvement in El Salvador would be ineffective and ultimately dangerous...
However, as additional survivors of the swamped boat were interviewed by authorities, a more likely story was pieced together. The Haitians admitted that after leaving their country, they landed in eastern Cuba. The refugees stayed there nearly a month repairing their boat, then set sail once again for the U.S., but quickly were washed up on a tiny island just off the Cuban coast. La Nativité- returned to Cuba; finally, around Oct. 23, the Cubans supplied the Haitians with food, water and cooking utensils, and then towed La Nativité out to sea - and toward Florida. The catastrophe...
Determined lobbying from Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau helped persuade Reagan to attend Cancún. But he had conditions: Cuba's Fidel Castro must not attend, the meeting should not be held before the Ottawa summit, and there must be no fixed agenda...
...during the Yemen civil war in the early 1960s. Military officials in Egypt, which was then a Soviet client, confirm that biochemical warfare equipment was deployed during that conflict. Seagrave also says that a biochemical weapons depot stocked with T2 poisons has been set up by Soviet advisers in Cuba...