Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class can rightly be portrayed as a natural fabric about to change. At the time we had no inkling. The headlines about riots and Kennedy ordering troops to Cuba were just rumblings to us," says Richard B. Barthelmes '61, advertising director for Gourmet magazine...
...quality and safety of Soviet-built nuclear reactors is a subject that will soon be close to home for some Americans. The Soviets are helping Cuba install a pair of reactors near the town of Cienfuegos, some 250 miles south of Miami. U.S. experts say that the twin units will use water rather than graphite to moderate the fuel reactions and will apparently be housed in containment buildings. Though full details are unknown, some U.S. physicists familiar with the Western-style reactors say they are probably no more dangerous than several now used in Florida...
Kouri left Harvard in 1958, during his sophomore year at the College, to fight in the Cuban Revolution under Fidel Castro. He earned a medical degree in Cuba but was condemned to death in 1965 for his opposition to Castro's communist policies, he said...
...United States' strongest argument against the Nicaraguan suit was that the Sandinista government, along with Cuba, waged "secret warfare against other states. These attacks were intended to be secret, and not attributable," said Moore, who is a professor of law at the University of Virginia...
When Reagan refers to Nicaragua as "a second Cuba," he unknowingly highlights his own acceptance of one such regime. He surely has no plans to topple "the first Cuba." Nicaragua is just an easier target on which he can vent his anti-communist spleen. And, of course, if Nicaragua were half the threat to American security that Reagan makes it out to be, his failure to intervence there long ago would be grounds for impeachment...