Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opening move in SALT, which would have required drastic reductions in the Soviet arsenal; his unseemly rush to normalize diplomatic relations with Peking, grant China most-favored-nation status and sell it military equipment; his saber rattling over the belated discovery last August of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba...
...Ohio. Anderson already is on the ballot in Kansas, New Jersey and Utah. For Reagan, Carter has settled on a more aggressive strategy. The President's aides will keep reminding voters this summer about the Californian's more outrageous statements, like his proposal that the U.S. blockade Cuba in retaliation against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Then, come fall, Carter himself will pound away at Reagan as a dangerous extremist...
Last week, Carter ordered the Justice Department to try to send back to Cuba those who have serious criminal records or have violated U.S. law. Carter's order may well affect the 125 Cubans who led the riot; at week's end 60 of them were being transferred to a detention center in El Paso for trial in a federal court. To keep order in the Fort Chaffee camp, Carter tripled the federal troops to 2,000. But White House Press Secretary Jody Powell took care to note that "the vast majority" were not involved in the violence...
...almost any topic, Reagan finds and stresses a connection with the Soviet-American rivalry. Israel is "a strategic asset" and "a deterrent to Soviet expansionism." He advocates military assistance to the anti-Marxist guerrillas of Afghanistan and Angola. Cuba represents "the threat of Soviet influence spreading through the Caribbean," and Nicaragua is a bear's paw threatening U.S. interests in Latin America. He even plays down the Sino-Soviet split, emphasizing that whatever the quarrels between China and the Soviet Union, "both are Communist, and both want to take over the world...
After braving the 110-mile boat journey from Mariel in Castro's Cuba, the refugees arrived at Key West, Fla., with visions of freedom and a better life. But they were herded onto planes and flown to one of four refugee camps, where they began the dreary game of waiting as center officials slowly processed them. Of the 7,500 refugees now living at Eglin, 5,000 have been there since the center opened on May 3. Arkansas' Fort Chaffee remains filled with 18,800, Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pa., holds 15,000, and the just opened Camp...