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Word: cuba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their probable destination: Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: A Fusillade During Prayers | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...weapon but my typewriter," Colombian Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), 53, complained after a hasty departure from his basement apartment in Bogota last month. Fearing a secret warrant for his arrest, the novelist and journalist fled to Mexico after Colombia had broken relations with Cuba and his personal friend Fidel Castro. The regime claims that the leading surrealist was merely trying to embarrass them by seeking refuge in the Mexican embassy in Colombia. But Garcia Marquez says, "I am shy and I look aggressive." Some countrymen offer a more illuminating possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 13, 1981 | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...letter addressed to the GSA. Hilary A. Kinal, president of the HROC, called the GSA's reaction to the poster "over-sensitive, anti-social, and paranoid" and suggested that members "move to Communist Cuba, where homosexuals are put in jail, so that you could have a real enemy to fight...

Author: By Sandra E. Cavazos, | Title: Club Refuses to Apologize For April Fools Day Poster | 4/7/1981 | See Source »

...Latin America, abortion is legal only in Cuba, but law does not necessarily determine practice. Argentines routinely weekend in Uruguay to shop -and to have illegal but readily available abortions. In Brazil, the government is slowly introducing a national family planning program (in deference to the church, the words "birth control" are not used), while a morbid and lucrative illegal abortion business thrives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Lives, Public Policies | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...bull elk-2 bucks-2 bear-an eagle and a coyote-Grouse all the time -Killed enough meat for the two guides to get married on-" The years pass the tallies mount. Noble critters are immortalized by his marksmanship in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Africa. Off Key West and Cuba, tons of tarpon, swordfish and sharks succumb to his brawn, will and, at one point his tommy gun. He boasts of bagging 122 enemies in combat, outboxing the biggest man on Bimini and having intercourse three times on his 50th birthday. He furnishes his editor and pubisher with exact counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Papa's Moveable Treats | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

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