Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet freighter was delivering MiG fighter jets to the pro-Marxist Sandinista regime, it continued to decry, in unusually harsh terms, the "incessant" buildup of other arms supplies in Nicaragua. Weinberger pointedly compared Moscow's current stockpiling of the country to its step-by-step militarization of Cuba nearly 25 years ago. The U.S. increased surveillance of the Soviet freighter Bakuriani, docked at the Nicaraguan port of Corinto, and of four other Warsaw Pact ships believed headed for Nicaraguan waters. The Administration repeated warnings that any attempt to introduce advanced fighter aircraft into the Nicaraguan arsenal would be "unacceptable...
Nonetheless, the Pentagon kept up its threatening expressions of concern. Even without the MiG-21s, U.S. officials said, the arrival of the Bakuriani marked the first time the Soviets had sent weapons to Nicaragua under their own flag, rather than through such surrogates as Cuba or Bulgaria. U.S. military officials said last week that four more Soviet and East-bloc freighters were on their way to Nicaragua, without saying when the ships would arrive, or where. Said Pentagon Spokesman Burch: "Nicaragua has now armed itself to a greater degree or in quantities far greater than any of its neighbors...
...pleasure craft is evident. Built in 1921 and named for a Great Lakes coal shipper whose brother Roger once managed the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians, the Peckinpaugh was drafted into service during World War II to carry coal offshore, and made several runs to Cuba. But then it was restored to its original purpose, which was to run the still waters of the canal...
...spent the past two decades bringing Latin American literature north to the U.S. The authors he has translated constitute a pantheon of Hispanic letters: Garcia Márquez (Colombia), Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), José Lezama Lima (Cuba), Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico), Vinicius de Moraes (Brazil...
...federal appeals court later ruled that as excludables, the Cubans had no constitutional right to be released. That ruling did not affect those already freed. Washington wants to deport those still held in Atlanta, but Cuban President Fidel Castro has so far refused to let them return to Cuba...