Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Romero Rodriguez read tha the United States is the land of human exploitation in his junior high school textbooks in Cuba...
...Fort McCoy, Wis., scene of repeated fights and homosexual rapes among some of the toughest refugees from Cuba, 120 young men packed their meager possessions in plastic garbage bags, boarded Greyhound buses, and then sat for 4½ hours while repairs were made to their chartered Boeing 737-the only hitch in the evacuation of Fort McCoy. By week's end nearly all 3,000 refugees were gone. Meanwhile, at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation in Pennsylvania, about 2,500 Cubans were loading their belongings into cardboard cartons for a similar journey this week...
Brandishing a bill of particulars, Powell ticked off nine countries ("just so we don't miss a continent") in which Reagan has suggested military involvement. He included Reagan's call that Cuba be blockaded in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, that a destroyer should be sent to Ecuador in response to the seizure of American tuna boats and that American troops should be sent to Lebanon during its civil...
...Vice Premier nonetheless defended China's support for the genocidal regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia and disparaged accounts that 1 million people had died under Pol Pot's rule. By its occupation of Laos and Cambodia, Viet Nam, he said, had become "the Cuba of the East." China's own attack against Viet Nam last year was not very successful, he noted, because many countries disapproved of it. But "we reserve our right to give them another lesson...
...Spanish. Some came from Cuban jails or mental hospitals. Among the inmates are 266 juveniles under 18 who are caught in a bureaucratic snarl. They cannot be adopted by American families under a federal administrative ruling that would require the consent of their parents, who are still in Cuba and cannot be reached. Nor can the youths be enrolled in foster-care programs even if they have relatives living in the U.S.; if the teen-agers need long-term counseling, as many may, and the foster parents cannot provide it, the financial burden would fall on a state. Wisconsin...