Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newly-elected chair of the campus' first Cuban-American organization said yesterday the group's main objectives will be to foster Cuban-American culture on campus and to promote a free and democratic Cuba...
...Rosado forgives what she can; the rest she refuses to believe. Born in Cuba, she left a bad marriage in 1957 and found another one in America. Her husband beat John from the beginning, she says. "And he beat me too." She says nothing about her son, or herself, that means as much as this: "I'm his mother. This is what a mother does...
Pope John Paul II wants more than Bill Clinton's confession: He's more likely to use his brief private meeting with President Clinton Tuesday to press the U.S. on issues ranging from the bombing of Iraq to the embargo against Cuba -- both of which the pontiff opposes -- and to press for measures such as debt relief for developing nations. Speaking on arrival for a one-day visit to St. Louis, the pope spoke out against abortion and the death penalty and urged Americans to "open (their) hearts to those less fortunate...
...young pitching sensation Fidel Castro made the team back in the '40s when he was scouted by the Washington Senators, relations between the U.S. and Cuba might have been radically different over the ensuing decades. But the team took a pass, and Castro returned to politics. Now baseball takes another swing at it when, over the weekend, an American delegation led by Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos attempts to unite the two nations through their mutual love of the game...
Angelos, taking advantage of President Clinton's partial lifting of the embargo against Cuba, will propose a two-game exhibition series between the Orioles and the Cuban National team. One game would take place in Cuba, a second at Camden Yards. While Cuban officials are reportedly "skeptical" that the meeting will lead to any real diplomacy, there have been signs in the past that Castro, still a huge fan, is willing to relax his policies when it comes to baseball: Last year when the New York Yankees won the World Series, he allowed the family of Cuban defector Orlando...