Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Except in Korea (and for another year or so outside the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba), the U.S. uses only "smart" mines that disarm or destroy themselves, usually after 48 hours. The U.S. has its own ban on exporting mines and in the past 18 months has scrapped 1.5 million of them and will get rid of another 1.5 million by 1999. Meanwhile, since 1993 the Pentagon has spent $150 million on demining and training deminers around the world. Such efforts cost more than money. The nine Americans killed two weeks ago in a midair collision over the Atlantic...
...Cuba Gooding, Jr. Wasn't there to say, "Show me the offense," but the Harvard field hockey team (2-2, 1-0 Ivy) exploded some convincing fireworks in its 5-0 rout of Columbia on Saturday...
...strange but effective summary of North Korea's loneliness, the article concludes: "Its closest friends now are Cuba and Vietnam, neither of which is able to give much assistance." We are to understand that North Korea cannot afford to keep its problems so quiet if it wants to survive...
Unencumbered by the notion that they may be operating out of expropriated property, foreign hotel companies like Club Med (France), Sol Melia (Spain), Golden Tulip (Netherlands) and Delta Hotels (Canada) grabbed prime spots and locked up lucrative hotel-management contracts. Cuba now has some 200 hotels offering 27,000 rooms--more than Puerto Rico and the Bahamas combined. "It's a profound disappointment that we are enjoined from building hotels and a tourism infrastructure there, while our competitors from around the world are allowed to enter and pick the fine sites," laments Marilyn Carlson Nelson, vice chairman of Carlson companies...
Desperate to avoid being frozen out, leading U.S. executives are taking matters into their own hands. "Most of the large hotel companies have already quietly established a relationship in Cuba or are at least working on doing so," says Michael Stein, a Miami-based lodging-industry consultant for Arthur Andersen...