Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of an airline ground crew or a maintenance worker at an airport, plants the gun either on the plane or somewhere in the terminal beyond the screening machines. The wall of security does seem to have deterred many of the lone gunmen who so often diverted flights to Cuba in the 1970s; the number of hijackings around the world has steadily decreased, from 91 in 1969 to 17 last year. Still, the precautions have not yet been able to thwart highly organized, professional terrorists like those who found a way to get guns aboard TWA Flight...
...station also had its first big news item: three hours before the broadcast, Cuban President Fidel Castro showed his displeasure with the launching of Radio Marti by suspending a U.S.-Cuba immigration agreement arduously completed only last December. Castro was particularly galled that the Reagan Administration had named the station after Jose Marti, the 19th century Cuban patriot and writer who regularly warned his country about imperialism. Castro's action, which ends visits to Cuba by exiles living in the U.S., was a direct retaliation against Miami's fiercely anti-Communist Cubans, who had been lobbying for Radio Marti since...
...suspended immigration agreement, which took several years to negotiate, would have permitted up to 20,000 Cubans to leave for the U.S. each year. Cuba had also agreed to take back 2,746 criminals and mentally ill people who came to the U.S. during the mass exodus of 125,000 Cubans from the port of Mariel in 1980; a mere 201 such "excludables" had been returned before last week. In addition, the agreement was to allow some 3,000 of Cuba's political prisoners to emigrate to the U.S. One hour after Castro's suspension was announced, the first...
...well as would-be Cuban immigrants. Said one State Department official: "With every day that goes by without additional reaction, the chances are better for things to slip back to where they were." President Reagan, who personally gave the go-ahead for the station May 18, seemed unperturbed by Cuba's response. On Monday, he was due in Miami at a fund raiser for Republican Senator Paula Hawkins, one of Radio Marti's most vociferous advocates...
...part owing to difficulty in assembling a qualified staff. Because wary legislators made the news service part of the Voice of America, Radio Marti must comply with that agency's mandate to broadcast "accurate, objective and comprehensive" news. The first day's 14 1/2- hour broadcast, which Cuba tried unsuccessfully to jam, included a melodramatic soap opera, tunes from Pop Singer Julio Iglesias and an interview in Spanish with Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda, who claimed that the island would have had a major league baseball team by now if it were not a Communist country. Most observers agreed...