Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration has been asking for four concessions from Nicaragua: 1) an end to the Sandinistas' military ties with Cuba and the Soviet Union, including the removal from the country of some 3,500 Communist military advisers; 2) an end to Nicaraguan support for the Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador; 3) curtailment of the country's formidable military arsenal and of any plans to use Nicaragua's Punta Huete airport, still under construction, as a base for advanced military aircraft; 4) fulfillment of Sandinista promises to support political pluralism, meaning reversal of the country's drift toward...
...Iowa girl had first been moved by the Depression-era plight of the Midwestern farmers. On a visit to Cuba in 1935, she chronicled the hopeless resistance to the new Batista dictatorship. The same year she was in Nazi Germany reporting on opposition to Hitler. In Spain in 1937, she witnessed the death throes of the Spanish Republic. Her biographer asks: "What could be a more vivid embodiment of a life lived according to principle...
...working round the clock to finish the main strip by this fall. Washington fears that the field will be used for a shipment of Czechoslovak-made L-39 fighters that may be en route from Eastern Europe, or by a squadron of Soviet MiG-23s reportedly stationed in Cuba, but the Sandinistas deny it. All the U.S. and Nicaragua seem to agree on is that, at some 4,400 yds., Punta Huete will have the longest runway in Central America...
...discovered in a guerrilla cache on July 27. No fewer than 156 of the rifles had been sent to U.S. forces in Viet Nam during the 1960s; only 40 were delivered to the Salvadoran army. The evidence, Gorman said, suggested that the weapons were supplied by Viet Nam through Cuba and Nicaragua. Likewise, captured Chinese-made grenade launchers bore serial numbers in sequence with those of identical weapons captured by U.S. troops in Grenada. The U.S. explanation is that all the launchers were part of the same shipment from Cuba...
...original text by British Playwright Edward Bond. The principal themes-the evils of fascism and the brotherhood of the masses-are ones that Henze has previously explored in such vocal works as the Essay on Pigs (1968) and El Cimarrón (1969-70), written in Cuba. "New museums, opera houses and premieres are not necessary," Henze declared in 1967. "What is necessary is. . . the greatest work of art of mankind: the world revolution...