Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leftist guerrillas, fueled by aid from several countries, including Nicaragua, Cuba and Libya, recently started major offensives against the Duarte government, so far with mixed results. In the first stage of the offensive, more than 20,000 government workers walked off their jobs in support, but government forces prevented the guerrillas from capturing hoped-for symbolic military victories before President Reagan's inauguration...
...avoid a debacle, such as those caused by America's self-serving and short-sighted policy in Cuba, Chile and Nicaragua, the United States government should immediately recognize the government supported by the people of El Salvador. If the opposition is to overcome the repressive regime that rules the country by terror now, the United States should either halt its aid to Duarte or, for once, aid the popular forces. Only with the victory of El Salvador's leftist guerrillas will peace return to the embattled Central American country...
Though Rodriguez was the sole petitioner, the Topeka ruling probably will speed the release of all 234 Cubans at Leavenworth. Moreover, it could pay dividends for other "undesirable" refugees in federal prisons, who make up just over 1% of those who fled Cuba last year for the land of "open hearts and open arms" that was promised by President Carter. Of the 800 crammed into a penitentiary in Atlanta, six are awaiting judicial action on petitions similar to Rodriguez's. Most reportedly reckon that if they must be locked up somewhere, they would prefer to be back in Cuba...
Rodoboldo Hernandez is a worker in a Jamaica Plain candle factory who emigrated from Cuba ten years ago. He can not describe his reasons for leaving his native country, saying that he just got the opportunity and left. But he says he feels great about the naturalization ceremony. "I think it's one of the best things that has happened to me. I live here." He adds that as a citizen he will have much better chances of bringing his father and mother, who still live in Cuba, here...
...least, one must agree with Kirkpatrick when she says that rightist authoritarian regimes are more likely to be democratic than, say, Cuba or China. At present, the possibility of, say, Cuba or Poland becoming free and democratic is certainly absurd; yet in the past few years three Latin American countries, and only one with the prompting of President Carter--the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Peru--have all peacefully discarded their military regimes...