Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the Soviets have taken Afghanistan, I think the Americans should just grab Cuba...
...Cape Cod waters. We also can ask ourselves if today's history might have been different had Carter been in the White House rather than aboard the Delta Queen churning down the Mississippi River when the Government began to get alarmed about the Soviet combat brigade in Cuba. In the Oval Office men seem to pause a second or two longer in their deliberations. If Carter had muted U.S. indignation, then had not had to back down later, would the Soviets have been so bold in Afghanistan? Some authorities think...
Lying some 60 miles off the southwest coast of Cuba, the lush island-formerly known as the Isle of Pines-is swept by breezes scented by countless pine trees and grapefruit groves. The island has an unsavory past: before Castro's revolution it housed the Presidio, one of the most brutal prisons in the Western Hemisphere. Castro was incarcerated there for 20 months...
...routine of the schools is almost military in nature. Except when they are working in the fields (usually about three hours a day), the youths are dressed in blue uniforms with red kerchiefs and red berets, the standard garb of Cuba's own "young pioneers." The students are roused at 6 a.m., take breakfast (typically ham, bread and milk) in carefully ordered sittings at the school's mess hall. They are held responsible for the neatness of their dorms, which are crowded with double-decker bunks; each student has shelves by his bed to store books and clothing...
...there is a certain mechanical, programmed quality to the answers they give to questions about their future. Asked about her ambitions, a 16-year-old Angolan girl responded, "My desire is to continue my career to help my country. It is for Angola to decide whether I stay in Cuba to get my higher education." To the same question, a young Mozambican boy answered, "The party in Mozambique will be my guide. I would like to continue my studies, but if it is decided otherwise, I will return home...