Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republicans' Utopian dreams of a world of "good guys and bad guys, where some politicians shoot first and ask questions later." This was a forecast, no doubt, of the kind of attack that will be launched against Reagan during the campaign. Reagan, said Carter, suggested blockading Cuba after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, while opposing the President's grain embargo. Scoffed Carter: "He doesn't seem to know what to do with the Russians. He is not sure if he wants to feed them or play with them or fight with them...
Carter was told by some of his counselors when the issue of the Soviet combat brigade in Cuba surfaced that he should never have allowed it to develop in the fashion that it did. But faced with the fact, these counselors said, he should broaden the issue and confront the problem of the Cuban mercenaries operating in Africa. For a moment, according to one witness, his interest was roused, but in the end he would not shoulder the burden of confronting the Soviets...
...Haiti Allen destroyed virtually the entire coffee crop, a major source of income for the impoverished island, and killed at least 50. Before the hurricane cut across Jamaica, Prime Minister Michael Manley pleaded on national radio: "I ask for God's blessing for this night." Though western Cuba was barely scratched, the storm battered nearby Isla Juventud, where 25,000 teen-agers from Third World countries are studying on Cuban scholarships, then swiped at the Yucat...
...military advisers. Today they total more than 2,000. But Nicaragua does not seem to be turning into a docile Cuban appendage. Says William Baez, director of a private enterprise group: "The government wants to go to some kind of socialist situation, but they don't want another Cuba...
While clearly pleased with this swing back to constitutional government, Washington is concerned that Honduras might be used as a conduit for arms shipped to the Salvadoran guerrillas from Cuba and elsewhere. There have also been reports that thousands of Somoza's former national guardsmen are holed up in Honduras and plotting a counterrevolution against the Sandinistas. Partly to help the Honduran government guard against such in filtration, Washington has offered it a $3.5 million military-aid package...