Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began his career as an agronomist and ended up as a master of the diplomatic arts. Another is a former shipyard engineer with a reputation for rudeness and arrogance. A third is a tough fighter against corruption who once reportedly fell into disfavor and was sent packing to Cuba as Ambassador. And the fourth is a former KGB chief from the Muslim south. This is the quartet of crucial players who will determine how smoothly and how quickly Mikhail Gorbachev will be able to accumulate power...
...current position as premier of the Russian Republic. Like Gorbachev, he was a protege of Andropov, who apparently tabbed Vorotnikov to clean up corruption. Vorotnikov had conducted an earlier anticorruption drive with such fervor that he seemingly incurred the wrath of powerful enemies and was shipped off to Cuba as Soviet Ambassador from 1979 to 1982. But his star has ascended steadily since...
...women's economic, political and social parity with men is not confined to the United States, or even to democratic, "developed," or industrial societies. Feminists are to be found, to name a few places, in South Africa, fighting for the end of forced sterilization of Black women, in Cuba and Nicaragua, vying for political recognition from their revolutionary brothers, in China, seeking to stem the recent upsurge of female infanticide, and in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, demonstrating against development policies and multi-national corporations that threaten their traditional homebased economic systems...
...movements in their countries, range from longtime activists of established movements--like Simone de Beauvoir on the state of French feminism, and Amanda Sebestyen, a veteran of the British movement--to women who write under aliases to avoid persecution from their governments. "La Silenciada," (the Silenced One) writes of Cuba, and we hear from an "anonymous white South African feminist" who doesn't disclose her identity because she comes out against the double persecution of Black women under apartheid...
...Silenciada" of Cuba writes the after twenty-five years of socialist communist government, women are virtually absent from any positions of political power. Of the Cuban women she writes...