Word: cuba
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DIED. Haydeé Santamaria Cuadrado, 53, one of two women who took part in the July 26,1953, attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba that launched Fidel Castro's revolution; by her own hand; in Havana. She survived seven months of imprisonment after the abortive raid and eventually joined Castro's guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra until their victory...
...week. Most eagerly awaited was the showdown between England's exciting runners, Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, in the 800 meters. Another Briton, Allan Wells, 28, beat them to the gold with a victory in the 100-meter dash; Wells needed a closing rush to edge out Cuba's Silvio Leonard in the relatively slow time of 10.25. (The best U.S. time this year was 10.02 by James Sanford of the University of Southern California.) A Cuban woman, Maria Colon, set an Olympic record in winning the javelin. Jaak Uudmae, 25, of the Soviet Union, won the triple...
Bush also attacked Reagan's suggestion that the U.S. might blockade Cuba in reprisal for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A blockade, he said, would tie up the entire U.S. Atlantic Fleet for no useful purpose: "The Cubans didn't invade Afghanistan. The Soviets did." And while Bush did not stress his positions on the ERA and abortion during the campaign, he did not conceal them. Democrats will make what they can of these differences. Democratic National Chairman John C. White, for example, portrays Bush as a weakling for accepting the very conservative Republican platform: "That by-golly ambition...
Each and every one of the Cuban refugees who took to the streets in Fort Chaffee should be provided with a parachute and airlifted back over Cuba...
...Italy, West Germany and Austria. Last year petroleum was the largest Soviet export, with about $6 billion in precious foreign exchange coming from Western Europe alone. An end to oil exports, moreover, would weaken the political and economic hegemony the Soviets have over their East bloc satellites and Cuba, which are heavily dependent on Soviet petroleum supplies...