Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President John F. Kennedy had come to office criticizing Eisenhower's failure to check the advance of Communism in Cuba. But Kennedy's effort to roll back Soviet influence ended in disaster in April 1961 at the Bay of Pigs. It was there that, 1,300 CIA-trained Cuban exiles failed to invade the island and spark a movement that would bring down Fidel Castro...
...mayoral election in Miami [Nov. 28]: there are two ways for a Cuban to be elected mayor in this city. One is for the non-Cuban population to move out. The other is for the Cubans to realize that Miamians are concerned about Miami and not Cuba. City hall is not the place to carry on the fight against Fidel Castro. It is tune the Cubans realized that Fidel is in Cuba to stay and that we should get on with taking care of Miami...
...defense," but they were angry about what one official described as Ronald Reagan's "illadvised, counterproductive and downright dangerous" escalation of the conflict. The British disagree with the U.S. perception of Syria as a Soviet satellite and are concerned that Washington will seek to use Israel as "America's Cuba." Similarly, the French government described the U.S. raid as "retaliatory" in nature. But the French, who had previously staged a retaliatory raid of their own, were nonetheless fearful that the U.S. attack would narrow the chances of a negotiated settlement involving Syria. Late last week the three West European governments...
...incident underscored the little-publicized fact that for the past year the rebels have relied almost totally upon captured U.S. weapons to meet their military needs, not upon arms smuggled in from Nicaragua, Cuba or the Soviet Union. The guerrillas received supplies from Nicaragua during the early stages of the civil war, but by last spring some U.S. officials in the region were admitting that the flow had slowed to a "trickle." Nonetheless, the Administration has justified its support of rebels fighting Nicaragua's Marxist-led government largely on the ground that their actions are necessary to stop...
Seaga defeated Manley in 1980 partly because voters had become disenchanted with Manley's growing ties to Cuba and to Jamaica's extreme left. By emphasizing the role of his country's 175 troops in the Caribbean Peace Force, Seaga did his best to exploit lingering fears of the left. Said Carl Stone, Jamaica's leading political pollster: "People see that what happened to [Grenada's assassinated Prime Minister] Maurice Bishop could have happened to Manley: a popular leader encircled, controlled and then eliminated by the radical left...