Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should take advantage of Jackson's success abroad and embark on a dialogue with Cuba, the countries of Central America and any others that Jackson may choose to visit...
...appalled by the latest escapades of the Rev. Jesse Jackson [NATION, July 9]. I can appreciate any humanitarian reasons that Jackson may have had for his trip to Central America and Cuba; however, he has no right to conduct foreign affairs and should not be meddling...
...this time of poor relations with Communist countries, Jackson's trip to Cuba shows that Americans and Marxists can break through old suspicions and reason together over mutual problems as reasonable men should...
...unhappy countries are like Tolstoy's unhappy families; each is miserable in its own way. Even by that standard, the portrait of Fidel Castro's Cuba offered by the exiles whose testimony forms the bulk of this softspoken, yet emotionally gripping documentary is singularly poignant...
Included in the original assignment were three Communist countries, the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba, which have decided since May to sit out the Games. Leifer had the notion that Cuba's "landmark" was President Fidel Castro, who obligingly posed with the island's superheavyweight boxer, Teófilo Stevenson. Afterward, when Leifer asked Castro to autograph a picture from an earlier session, the President's arm was so sore from holding Stevenson's hand aloft in a victory salute that he could barely write. The arm was not too sore, however, to offer Leifer...