Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonology of the Reagan Administration, Fidel Castro's Cuba ranks high, probably somewhere between Libya and Nicaragua. The only serious U.S. combat action in a decade has been against Cubans, during last year's Grenada invasion, and the Administration has refused even to consider fullscale, formal diplomatic relations. Thus it seemed a bit out of character when the White House last week announced a deal to re-establish immigration arrangements, the first agreement between the U.S. and Cuba since 1977. Castro will take back as many as 2,746 criminals and mental patients he dispatched...
...Cuba makes a deal with the U.S. to take back some undesirables...
...image of all 129,000 Marielitos in this country has been unfairly tainted by the drug dealing and savage violence of a comparatively few miscreants. Of the 2,746 who can now be returned to Cuba, about 2,200 have been convicted of crimes in the U.S. and the rest have been in custody ever since they disembarked in Key West, Fla. More than 1,500 are in a federal prison in Atlanta. The rest are in state and local jails and mental institutions. They will be sent back gradually, beginning in January, about 100 being flown out each month...
...vast majority of the people want to bring relatives from Cuba," said Juan Clark, a sociology professor at Miami-Dade Community college who last spring surveyed $14 randomly selected refugees here...
...your writer argues that we should continue to respect the tenets of international law, and let the Sandinistay buy any weapons they want. If we'd followed such a course in 1962 we would be faced with a severly destabilizing nuclear threat from Cuba. Indeed, the folloy of this legalistic position becomes quite evident when you realize that it would make the courageous actions of President Kennedy into the crimes of an outlaw state. In the same way, the covert war and the mining of Nicaragua's harbors are legally indefensible, but vitally necessary actions in our policy toward...