Word: cuba
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India's Rajiv Gandhi was there, and so were Cuba's Fidel Castro, the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega and some 50 heads of state. The occasion was the eighth Summit Conference of the Nonaligned, a group now made up of 101 nations that was formed 25 years ago by leaders of the postwar independence movement: Nehru of India, Tito of Yugoslavia, Sukarno of Indonesia, Nkrumah of Ghana and Nasser of Egypt. Its members claim to be neutrals in the confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but its triennial meeting last week in Harare...
Maria Conchita Alonso puts an accent on ambition. Born in Cuba, raised in Venezuela, Alonso built a successful singing and acting career in Latin America. But "I didn't want only South and Central America," she says. "I want the whole world." With North America for a start. Her first major U.S. film role was as Robin Williams' Italian girlfriend in 1984's Moscow on the Hudson, for which she took lessons to speak with an Italian accent. Since then, she has made four more movies, including the current Touch and Go and Extreme Prejudice, a Christmas release in which...
...ferry docked, police seized Gonzalez and charged him with murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon (which had legally been sold to him for $22 by a Times Square souvenir shop). At the Staten Island police station the prisoner, who fled from Cuba in 1977 aboard a small boat, shouted, "The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit made me do it!" Authorities sent him to Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn for psychiatric evaluation...
...latest talks the Soviets are more demanding: they are asking for shore privileges and airline landing rights as well as fishing access. Vanuatu, an 80-island nation about 1,000 miles east of Australia and 1,000 miles north of New Zealand, has recently sought closer relations with both Cuba and Libya...
Though the U.S. maintains very tough trade sanctions against such countries as Cuba, Viet Nam, Kampuchea, Libya, North Korea and Nicaragua, the Reagan Administration opposes any similar action toward South Africa. So far, Washington has banned the sale of arms, oil and certain police equipment to South Africa, withdrawn from sports and cultural exchanges, curtailed government loans and stopped the sale of Krugerrand gold coins in the U.S., but Reagan opposes the adoption of additional measures. Moreover, the Administration argues that America's ability to influence the Botha government's policies is marginal, even though the U.S. is South Africa...