Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chronicles of self-improvement, what's going on here is not wholly new. Speech coaches in New York City have built careers battling Brooklynese, and in Boston there are Kennedy clones who have lately learned to talk like television anchors (for whom Cuba never rhymes with tuber). Why shouldn't they do it in Chattanooga too? This is the market niche an intrepid speech pathologist named Beverly Inman-Ebel spotted several years back when she set herself up in practice teaching "speech perfection," or how not to talk like a Southerner...
...Ronald Reagan, Gromyko declares that "perhaps the most complex" discussion of his career was with John Kennedy at the White House during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. "Not once in the whole course of the conversation did Kennedy raise the question of the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba," Gromyko asserts. "Consequently, I did not have to answer whether or not there were such weapons in Cuba." Gromyko's favorite President is Roosevelt, but he also expresses admiration for Richard Nixon's studied pragmatism. Gromyko has little to say about Reagan beyond a reference to his "courtesy...
Unfortunately for Robertson, as the campaign wears on, he will have to seriously address the issues and at some point, the voters will no longer accept his inflamatory and disbased statements, like those made last week about Soviet missiles in Cuba. Eventually, spiritual power alone will not be satisfactory, and he will need some real political strength...
...area of foreign affairs and economics, the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and the 700 Club program shows little expertise. At a debate Sunday night he claimed that the Soviets had placed 25 nuclear missiles in Cuba and in previous statements he has promised to send aid to Polish rebels and to make future wars short because "we could have won Vietnam in a week or two." To solve the budget deficit, Robertson favors a "year of jubilee" in which all debts would be forgiven and has proposed selling the U.S. Post Office to raise revenue...
...enjoyed close relations with Cuban Leader Fidel Castro. Blandon says he personally witnessed a 1984 meeting in Havana at which Castro mediated a dispute between Noriega and the leaders of a major Colombian drug cartel. According to Blandon, as well as U.S. Customs investigators, Noriega has supplied Cuba with U.S. intelligence and high-technology goods. In Central America, the general has sold weapons both to Nicaragua's anti-Communist contras and to Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador. "He is a businessman," declares Blandon. "Contras, Sandinistas, Cubans, the CIA -- he deals with them all to make money...