Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Panama Canal treaties, SALT II and deficit spending for social programs. He attacks Church's chairmanship of the committee that investigated the CIA and in the process, many believe, seriously damaged the agency. Symms often recalls Church's flattering remarks about President Fidel Castro after visiting Cuba in 1977: "I leave with the impression I've found a friend...
...several months ago, lack of food and oppression by Castro's regime drove the energetic 30-year-old floor-waxer to leave his wife, mother and daughter in Cuba and come to the United States in search of something better...
...United States has not been easy, even for a man who was drafted into military service after the eighth grade, but Rodriguez says the freedom "is like being reborn. I can walk around or stand on the street for half an hour and no one will bother me. In Cuba, the police would...
...estimates that only one quarter of the 8 million persons in Cuba are pro-Castro...
Rodriguez learned a little about Boston in Cuba. "In school," he says excitedly, "they taught us that Boston is the oldest city in the United States. And that the best pronunciation of the English language is in Boston...