Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terror organizations. For years, the Soviets have brought young people from non-Communist countries into Moscow to be trained in the arts of conducting wars of national liberation and inflicting violence. And the training camps for terrorists are primarily in the Soviet bloc and the countries they support: Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya and so on. Now, in Beirut, there has been a specific terrorist act against the Soviets themselves. So far they have handled it in a very quiet and cool way. It is too early to tell whether, because of it, they will change their basic policy toward the terror...
...governments in Afghanistan, Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia and Nicaragua. That forced them and their allies to deploy 300,000 of their troops to occupy other countries. The Soviets spend some $12 billion a year around the world to assist their allies in military and economic aid: $4 billion goes to Cuba every year, Afghanistan costs them $4 billion and Viet Nam, Cambodia, Angola, Ethiopia and Nicaragua take the rest. Since 1979 they have lost 750 planes in Afghanistan, mainly on the ground. The guerrillas now control twice as large a portion of Afghanistan as they did when they started...
...sorrow than in anger, it was because of my long standing respect for you as a scholar and a person. Although you will not remember it. I first met you 23 years ago at a meeting to protest another operation of the Central Intelligence Agency, the invasion of Cuba known as "the Bay of Pigs...
State Department legal advisor Abraham Soafer said the administration thought the Nicaragua proceedings did not belong in the World Court, but rather in a political forum. He said the administration believes that it is exercising its right to engage in "collective self-defense" against Nicaraguan activities which it thinks Cuba and the Soviet Union support...
...propaganda value, the scapegoat for Cuba's ills, remains. Although less tangible than money or technological knowledge or industrial trade, a lightning rod like Guantanamo can prove invaluable to a young regime like Cuba...