Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Radio Marti, a U.S.-sponsored radio station that has broadcast to Cuba since 1983, is even more prejudiced than Voice. As it harps on Cuba's problems--while glorifying life in the states--Marti cedes any chance of winning democracy the respect it deserves...
...recent epidemics of AIDS in the United States has prompted Cuban officials to attack the decadent West, while denying the demonstrated fact of the syndrome's presence in their own country. These lies have been refuted by Marti broadcasts that present evidence of AIDS in Cuba. But then Marti goes further, and much to far, in saying that military men brought AIDS to Cuba from Angola--and that Cubans who don't support the United States position on the conflict put their health at risk...
...around now and concede that while they are still among the good players, they are no longer the champions of the world. Even in intramural sports, Americans like to claim global title, though the baseball World Series has had a slightly tinny sound elsewhere and must positively clank in Cuba. At a true World Series in Pennsylvania last month, the Taiwanese Little Leaguers beat the home team as usual, but this time the score...
...just a harmless "getting to know you" social event or a public signing. In 1961 Soviet leader Khrushchev left a stormy summit with Kennedy thinking the American leader was a vacillating and indecisive man. Many historians argue that this experience led Khrushchev to believe he could place missiles in Cuba without worrying about an American response. Indirectly, but yet importantly, the 1961 summit almost led to a nuclear...
Talk of peace worries the U. S.- backed contra rebels. -- Libya loses a base and a plane in its war with Chad. -- Sad whispers in Cuba...