Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheduled U.S. Navy exercise near Guantánamo Naval Base and ordered the diversion of 34 ships to help the U.S. Coast Guard assist scores of boats in distress. "If they could build a bridge that would connect Havana and Miami, there would be no one left in Cuba!" hooted one middle-aged arrival. Or almost no one, to hear the refugees. Said José Antonio Aras, 77: "President Fidel Castro will be the only one there...
...clash followed a May Day rally at which Fidel Castro urged 1 million cheering supporters to bid "good riddance" to the "lumpen" leaving Cuba. Though the attackers had come in buses belonging to the CUBAN INSTITUTE FOR FRIENDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE, there was little doubt about who was behind the assault. "It was clearly permitted, if not sponsored, by the Cuban government," charged Thomas Reston, U.S. State Department spokesman. Though Havana promised safe transport home to the squatters, most decided to remain encamped there...
...there any more," said Aldo Montenegro, 39, a Havana cook. "They kill ambition. One has to live in misery." Concurred Lazaro Bijande, 18, a Havana student: "I was born in the revolution. They taught me that all this is good. In the end, it's all a fraud. Cuba doesn't advance...
...clear from the disparate motives that the flood of refugees is not likely to slow down soon. Cuban officials privately estimate that 250,000 of Cuba's 9.7 million would like to leave the island; others put the figure at 1 million and more. As for the man who started the flood, he apparently has no intention of turning it off. "We don't want them, we don't need them," thundered Castro of the refugees at a May Day rally in Havana last week.. He claimed that he had opened Mariel to teach...
Indeed that is a challenge the Carter Administration is still scrambling to meet. "We want to stop the flow because Castro cannot be allowed to dictate who comes into the U.S.," said one State Department official. "On the other hand, we have a tradition of accepting people from Cuba and it's highly unlikely that we would send people back...