Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is good will on both sides, this is the time to show it," said Jose Luis Llovio-Menendez, former chief adviser to Cuba's Finance Ministry and the current Shepardson fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York...
Llovio-Menendez gained political asylum in the U.S. in October, 1984. He said he spent 16 years in Cuba plotting his escape and pretending he embraced Communist beliefs, and defected "because I am a revolutionary. I am not a Communist...
Hard-line tactics, which he said included alienating Cuba from the world marketplace and the use of force, have only further entrenched Castro's control of the island nation, said Llovio-Menedez...
Iran's first plea was to the International Civil Aviation Organization, meeting in Montreal. But of the 33 nations that sit on the I.C.A.O.'s governing body, only four (the Soviet Union, China, Czechoslovakia and Cuba) were in favor of condemnation. Iran eventually had to settle for a statement that merely "deplored" the incident and promised an investigation...
...governments of Angola, Cuba and South Africa agreed to agree last week. If that sounds like slow progress, it is more than anyone expected when talks first convened...