Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China as perhaps the best hope for thwarting the Soviets.) It matters not. '"Radish communists,"' he reminds us, "red on the outside but white on the inside, taste as good to the Soviets as red tomatoes." This from the man who once described South America as a "Red sandwich"--Cuba and Chile (then under Allende) the slices of bread and one need not wonder who is waiting to gobble up the rest...
...worst since 43 people were killed (mostly black rioters shot by police) in a week of looting and burning in Detroit in 1967. High unemployment, the ruinous impact of inflation, resentment at all the public help given the still rising tide of refugees inundating southern Florida from Cuba-all fed the fury of the Miami area's 233,000 blacks. Yet perhaps more clearly than in any other recent race conflict, the rage in Miami focused on police, prosecutors and the courts. And when the three-day bloodletting was over, blacks had fresh cause to complain that some Miami...
Washington repeated its offer to send U.S. ships and airplanes to Cuba to pick up refugees if Castro agreed to let U.S. officials screen the would-be exiles. Havana rejected the proposal-but not outright. In a front-page editorial in the official newspaper Granma, Cuba expressed its willingness to discuss the "isolated" problem of the refugees if Washington agreed to talk about other issues such as the U.S. economic blockade and the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo. The relatively mild language led Washington to believe that although Castro is not in any real trouble, he may have begun...
...flow of illegal immigrants persists, merely inconvenienced by the understaffed Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol. And the U.S. has often made massive exceptions to the law in order to admit refugees-36,000 from Hungary after the 1956 uprising, for example, and 872,000 from Cuba since the Castro revolution. Future upheavals will undoubtedly produce massive new exceptions. A new law, the Refugee Act of 1980, attempts to bring some order to immigration, but it is not much help in resolving the questions of fairness, humanity, precedent and priority that the new mass Cuban migration raises...
...Cuba remained the most urgent cause of worry. The State Department ordered 17 of 20 remaining staffers and their dependents out of Havana, at least temporarily, as Castro whipped up anti-American sentiment before staging a mass rally in the streets of Havana on Saturday. While speakers heatedly denounced the U.S., the crowd relished the rhetoric but refrained from attacking the former U.S. embassy building-the last significant symbol of official American representation in Havana...