Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formidable Soviet fleet also has flaws, despite its success at projecting Soviet power in ports of call from Cuba to Mauritius. Although larger than the U.S. Navy in numbers of warships, the Soviet surface fleet still lacks anything as sophisticated as a U.S. aircraft carrier. Soviet nuclear-powered submarines are thought to give off so much radiation that Soviet sailors morbidly joke that members of the northern fleet are easily identifiable be cause they glow in the dark. During the past eight months, one nuclear sub foundered in deep water off the Siberian pen insula of Kamchatka and a second...
...that keeps blasting out the Goldberg variations. Nostalgically, he reminisces about all the dopey things he loved to do as President. These memories include sitting at his desk "with the fireplace running and the air-conditioning on" and inviting over Redskins stars on the white phone while discussing bombing Cuba with Kissinger on the red phone. Insanely, he tells his microphone how after Watergate the press and the liberals ate him alive--" an army of Ralph Naders and Jane Fondas and Jews and Redskin rats." Holding a gun to its metallic head, he screams at it: "And they'll come...
...spare us from victory. The year has begun with another victory in a war we are destined to lose." Botha's disengagement pleased the Reagan Administration, which has been working to effect an overall settlement in the area that would eventually lead to the removal from Angola of Cuba's 26,000 troops and advisers. In recent weeks, U.S. officials have engaged in talks with representatives of both Angola and South Africa in the Cape Verde Islands...
...Cuba," says Paquito D'Rivera, "jazz is a four-letter word." So, at the age of 32, he came to New York. Jazz may be spelled the same way in America, may even be locked into a perpetual cultural rearguard action, but at least it does not carry all kinds of touchy political ramifications. "Jazz music isn't forbidden in Cuba," D'Rivera elaborates, "but if you do that kind of music, they will put an eye on you. You're going to be like pro-American or something, you know." He also recalls some advice...
...Rivera left a lot back in Cuba, including a wife, from whom he is now divorced, and their son Franco, 8, for whom his father still yearns. "I am suffering a lot because of my son," D'Rivera says, "but if they put me again in the airport of Madrid, I would do the same thing. I am in love with my country. But my country is part of my past life. I don't want to return...