Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conservatives who do not favor normalizing relations with Cuba cancelled plans to participate in a Kennedy School panel held last night, resulting in a one-sided discussion that speakers said was indicative of the poor relations between the U.S. and Cuba...
Ramon Bueno, who helped organize the panel, said two leaders of the conservative movement against normalizing relations with Cuba refused to participate in last night's discussion, after previously agreeing to debate the issue with others who support negotiations...
...candidate not only professed he was (like all the Republicans) opposed to abortion, but argued that we are committing genocide against ourselves by depriving America of all the wages unborn babies would be earning in the 21st century. He also made wild claims about offensive missiles remaining in Cuba. He finally became a laughingstock when he suggested that Bush's people had engineered the Jimmy Swaggart sex scandal to damage his campaign...
...unprecedented tide toward democracy. The Philippines, South Korea and much of Latin America have thrown off dictatorship. Even Chile may soon follow. Regional conflicts are being resolved at an extraordinary rate. The Soviets are leaving Afghanistan. They are putting pressure on Viet Nam to leave Kampuchea and on Cuba to leave Angola. Iran and Iraq are in a cease-fire. Even the endless Saharan war between Morocco and the Polisario guerrillas appears near settlement...
...right and the right as a latecomer to anti- Communism. Sontag was stunned by the response, especially the assumption that her rejection of Communism was a recent development or that it signaled a sharp move rightward on her part. As early as 1971, she points out, she was protesting Cuba's imprisonment of writers like the poet Heberto Padilla, now a friend living in the U.S. She also insists that her views are not the result of the close friendships she has formed with writers in exile from Communism, including Czeslaw Milosz of Poland and Joseph Brodsky of the Soviet...