Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extraordinary security of the American mainland owed much to the fact that the U.S. resisted, under the Monroe Doctrine, any great-power penetration of its own hemisphere. For the past 40 years that local security has enabled the U.S. to look abroad and take responsibility for a vast alliance. Cuba was the first great breach in the Monroe Doctrine, and it has indeed complicated the U.S. strategic position not only in the Americas, where Cuba has actively engaged in the attempted destabilization of one country after another, but as far away as Africa, where Cuban troops serve as a Soviet...
...FIRST step I made was to put my best foot forward, ideologically-speaking. I hitched a ride with a quasi-legal import-export merchant to Nicaragua and then took an arms freighter to Cuba where I was able to register with the Comintern and buy some identification papers. I was now Rutger Gorbachev, long lost grand-nephew, twice removed, from the Soviet premier. I figured the pull might be useful later...
Margaret Randall has spent much of her life traveling. Her journeys as a writer, oral historian and left-wing activist have taken her to Mexico, North Viet Nam, Nicaragua and Cuba. Today she has settled in at the University of New Mexico as a teacher of American and women's studies. But if the Immigration and Naturalization Service has its way, she may have a bit more traveling...
...resolution to restore the H2O allotment next year was introduced, provoking a three-hour committee debate, half serious, half silly. "Water is life," intoned Bernards Mudho of Kenya, but Maria Regina Serrao Emerson of Portugal called the debate "frivolous." At meeting's end, after Even Fontaine-Ortiz of Cuba facetiously noted that overtime pay for translators and guards had cost as much as any water saved, the resolution was referred to the General Assembly's plenary session, which tabled it without further thirst- inducing debate...
...Shultz went on the road last week to defend American policy toward Nicaragua. During a speech in Guatemala before the 16th General Assembly of the Organization of American States, he offered little hope for a negotiated settlement. "Foreign intervention in the form of alien ideologies and foreign cadres -- from Cuba, the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea, Viet Nam and Libya -- is at this very moment promoting instability and violence in Central America," said Shultz. "The only road to peace and stability is to eliminate that alien intervention." He asserted that "there would be a great sigh of relief...