Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over lunch at the State Department to think through a response. "We said that if the U.S. stayed firm, he'd back away," recalls Rostow, 70. Indeed, when President John F. Kennedy imposed a naval blockade in October to pressure the Soviets to dismantle missiles they were installing in Cuba, Khrushchev backed down...
...Russians, but far angrier at the U.S. Government than at anything the USSR has done. Nicaragua is a country where veneration for Marx, though well advanced in some circles, is considerably less than the veneration for the Virgin Mary in those same circles. Try saying that about Poland of Cuba, and you begin to appreciate the ambiguities of Nicaragua...
Into this slightly sleazy scene come Salvation Army Sergeant Sarah Brown (Sarah Beatty) determined to rescue the gamblers from their sinning ways, and Sky Masterson (Andrew Gardner), a gambler who bets as high as his name. As a result of a wager, this disparate pair finds itself flying to Cuba. Of course, they end up falling in love, and all sorts of plot tangles and twists follow. Despite his reputation, Sky turns out to be more a gentleman than a gambler, and he stakes his fortune to save Sarah's mission...
...local press carries little news of the Soviet Union's experimentation with freer markets and economic incentives. Members of Cuba's elite who are aware of the Soviet reforms nonetheless defend Castro's path. The farmers' markets, insists Enrique Capetillo Llana, an editor of the popular magazine Bohemia, "were too capitalistic." Ordinary Cubans have reacted to the new austerity with the indifference born of previous zigzags by Castro -- and with occasional spurts of defiance. Demand for underground home videocassette recorders, for example, has remained so strong that the government has tried to offset it by opening a series...
...fact, Castro is well aware that relations between Cuba and the U.S. | remain far too icy for him to expect an invitation. Washington has not even decided whether Cuba's athletes will be allowed to travel to Indianapolis on a Cuban airliner, which would technically violate a 27-year-old U.S. boycott on commerce with Havana. However, Castro knows that, as host of the games in 1991, Cuba will be in a position to handle any protocol complaints with a certain reciprocity...