Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration last week also began its first formal negotiations with Cuba since taking office. On the agenda at a New York City meeting: resumption of talks, stalled early in 1981, concerning the return of some 1,000 criminals and mentally ill individuals who were among the 125,000 refugees who arrived in a 1980 boat lift from the Cuban port of Mariel. Havana wants to discuss U.S. acceptance of up to 15,000 Cubans who have Fidel Castro's permission to emigrate...
Arquitectonica's other principals are Spear's husband Bernardo Fort-Brescia, 32, and Hervin A.R. Romney, 43. The firm's Spanish name is apt, and not only because the buildings show a frisky Latin bravado. Fort-Brescia was born in Peru, and Romney is from Cuba. All three partners, however, are the products of Ivy League schools. Founded only seven years ago, Arquitectonica already has a staff of 29 in its Miami headquarters and has opened offices in Houston and New York City...
...speech to an audience composed mostly of representatives of groups from Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and Cuba. Reagan called again on the Kremlin to allow outside observes to determine the condition of Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov and his wife. Yelena Bonner He said they "are suffering severe persecution and are cut off from the rest of humanity...
Actually, Costa Rica violated its military abstinence three years ago, when the Sandinistas began drawing closer to Cuba and the Soviet Union. At that point the government accepted $30,000 from the U.S. to send local guards to be trained in Panama, and allowed Washington to sup ply the nation with boots, tents, Jeeps, ra dios and even some low-key training. Last year the U.S. offered to rebuild a main road through the dense jungle in northern Costa Rica...
...were to the peasant economy, their fate was sealed once the African swine fever was discovered. An acute, febrile, highly contagious viral disease with a 99% mortality rate, it was initially recognized in Kenya in 1909. In 1971 it appeared for the first time in the Western Hemisphere, in Cuba, where 460,000 swine were killed to eliminate the disease. In 1978 it turned up in the Dominican Republic after a local pig supposedly ate contaminated ham from Spain. The vi rus quickly jumped the 200-mile common border into Haiti. Haitians recall seeing pigs fall dead in their tracks...