Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governments negotiated a historic cease-fire in the smoldering, nearly 18-year-old war along the Angola-Namibia border. This raised new hopes for a breakthrough in the long-stalled negotiations over Namibia. Then last week in Havana, Angola's Marxist President, José Eduardo dos Santos, and Cuba's President, Fidel Castro, unexpectedly issued a joint communiqué setting forth terms for a withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola...
...South African hostilities against the Angolan government and to Pretoria's support for the antigovernment forces of Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). "The governments of Cuba and Angola," the communiqué went on, "reiterate that they shall restart, on their own decision and exercising their sovereignty, the implementation of the gradual withdrawal [of Cuban troops] as soon as the conditions...
...morning of an Administration is the best time to send signals. Our signal to the Soviets had to be a plain warning that their time of unresisted adventuring in the Third World was over, and that America's capacity to tolerate the mischief of Moscow's proxies, Cuba and Libya, had been exceeded. Our signal to other nations must be equally simple and believable: once again, a relationship with the U.S. would bring dividends, not just risks...
...Hear Is Cuba, Cuba, Cuba...
...massive support of outside sources. I believed that through economic, political and security measures we should persuade the Soviets and Cubans to put an end to Havana's bloody activities in the hemisphere and elsewhere in the world. In Central America there could not be the slightest doubt that Cuba was at once the source of supply and the catechist of the Salvadoran insurgency...