Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Generals and Majors," with its hummable hook and over-blunt satire, is the stuff of a hit single, "Living Through Another Cuba" is the single best song the impending hostilities have yet inspired. A rising-and-falling arpeggio of treated guitar and human wailing leads into an over-heated, pseudosalsa beat, as Andy Partridge half-talks the lyrics...
...which is the only guide we have to the future, was largely forgotten, or worse, may have been unknown and unappreciated by both men. For 15 years, the record shows, the primary ingredient of peace has been our strength available and judiciously applied as in Berlin, Korea and around Cuba. That Carter never admitted this Government does have a policy of sorts for dealing with hostage taking can be understood, since he refused to invoke the plan in the Iran crisis (apply the maximum pressure that is sensible before making any concessions). Why Reagan showed no knowledge of that policy...
Manley's followers claimed that the CIA was supporting Seaga and covertly supplying him with arms, while Seaga's supporters characterized Manley as a closet revolutionary who would turn the island into another Cuba...
Sugar exports from the Western Hemisphere have also declined. Cuba's crop this year was raked by the rust fungus. The Cubans lost about 1 million tons of their 6.5 million-ton-harvest to the disease. As a result, the Castro government has cut its deliveries to the Soviet Union, which normally takes approximately half its crop, by about...
Manley's greatest hypocrisy is to blame the outflow of capital, a situation which both foreign and domestic sources created. Elected on a platform decrying the evils of foreign capital, Manley was practically inviting foreign capital to leave. And his close relationship with the staunchly anticapitalist Cuba did not encourage foreign investors. Manley has so frightened Jamaican businessmen that they, too, have transferred their holdings abroad. For Manley to blam the outflow of capital which he instigated for his country's economic woes is simply a fraud...